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NOTICE: MIGRATION IS COMPLETE!

Services are believed to be working properly now. Please contact masa@w-hat.com or @www_hat if you have any issues.

Please follow @www_hat on Twitter for status updates.

What is W-Hat.com?

W-Hat.com provides a couple of useful services for LSL developers:

name2key provides a way to get an avatar's key from their name.
httpdb provides free key/value storage for scripts with no signup.
lslint is a lint tool for LSL scripts

In the past, we also offered:

objdns provided email aliases for objects.
httpmail let objects send email to other objects via HTTP.

What happened to W-Hat?

The group became inactive and faded into obscurity as its members grew up. In 2011 the owner of the group and land was quietly banned from Second Life.

Some of us still hang out in #sl on irc.synirc.net, but almost nobody still plays Second Life.

Can I...

Yes, please do. Everything on this site is free and open source and all the services are free to use and abuse in any manner you see fit.

Who runs this site?

masa@w-hat.com

Where'd the postcards go?

Watch this space for a zip.

name2key

Look up keys

Enter as many names as you want, separated by anything other than spaces.

Add keys to database

Paste keys in this box to add them to the database. Formatting and extraneous text don't matter; anything that doesn't look like a UUID will be ignored.

Look up keys with a script

string NAME  = "Masakazu Kojima";           // name to look up
string URL   = "http://w-hat.com/name2key"; // name2key url
key    reqid;                               // http request id

default {
    state_entry() {
        reqid = llHTTPRequest( URL + "/" + llEscapeURL(NAME), [], "" );
    }

    http_response(key id, integer status, list meta, string body) {
        if ( id != reqid )
            return;
        if ( status == 499 )
            llOwnerSay("name2key request timed out");
        else if ( status == 400 )
            llOwnerSay("Invalid name: " + NAME);
        else if ( status == 404 )
            llOwnerSay("No key found for " + NAME);
        else if ( status != 200 )
            llOwnerSay("the internet exploded!!");
        else
            llOwnerSay(NAME + "'s key is: " + body );
    }
}

To look up a name, just make a GET request to http://w-hat.com/name2key/user.name. You can also use the old API: http://w-hat.com/name2key?name=user.name&terse=1.

I don't want my key listed!

There is no reason to worry about somebody else having your key. It is not a secret, it is just an identifier that LSL scripts use to interact with you.

Other databases

HaxWork name2key - Uses SL search as backup and crossfeeds into W-Hat database.
KDC's database - Kyrah Abattoir's database. Has been around for a long time.

httpdb

Pardon the mess

API documentation and web interface are currently unavailable due to an extremely rushed migration. They will be restored as soon as possible. Please bear with us and thanks for your patience.

Free storage for LSL scripts

httpdb provides free, persistant, off-site storage for Second Life LSL scripts via llHTTPRequest. You can store up to 250kb of data in the form of key/value pairs, and read or write the data from any script. You can share your data with other users, protect it with passwords, browse and manage your data on the web, and download backups.

Web Interface

Temporarily unavailable

Registration

There is no need to register to use httpdb, you can just start saving and retrieving data at any time.

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