Noddington Schmooz

The picture was inspired by one of my favourite (and very short) poems, by Sade Andria Zabala. It reads in it's entirety: "Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway." The idea is that they are both "monsters", yet they are still capable of loving and being loved.

Wow, how needlessly sexist, Endor. Stay Klassy.

In my shop, I have vendors with gifting capabilities. Visitors to the shop can click on the "Gift" button, input the name of the intended recipient into a text box, and send them a gift copy of the item in the vendor. My script used llHTTPRequest to parse results from vrsearch.secondlife.com through a Google app (name2key) to return the key of the avatar in question. If the requested name didn't exist, it got flagged as such; if it did exist, it would return the correct key, every time. With vrsearch.secondlife.com down, I cannot do this. I've rescripted to use http://search.secondlife.com/client_search.php as the search engine, but it's kludgey at best because it is dependent upon the customer inputting the name correctly. If they put in a Display Name, they can get any number of odd results. I've worked around this by scripting in an extra "Please confirm that you wish to send this gift to [NAME]" dialog, but that is a less than ideal situation. Since you seem to be saying --repeatedly-- that vrsearch.secondlife.com being down is a non-issue, I was wondering if you had some sort of script you'd be willing to share with the rest of us that will allow me to have a user input a name, and have it checked against SL's search database for (a) existence/non-existence and (b) return an absolutely correct UUID. Thanks in advance.