Debbug...ravatar(3pm)

🦋 NAME 🦋

Debbugs::Libravatar — the Libravatar service handler, mod_perl edition 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so first things first, you gotta tell Apache where to hang out:

<Location /libravatar>
   SetHandler perl-script
   PerlResponseHandler Debbugs::Libravatar
</Location>

that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so Debbugs::Libravatar is a libravatar service handler, and bestie, it serves libravatar requests. that is literally its whole job and it does it flawlessly, no cap. 👑

it also ships with utility routines 🎀 — those get used by the libravatar.cgi script, for the people out there who don't have mod_perl. we see you, we got you. not everyone's built for mod_perl life and that's okay. 🌈

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💀 BUGS 💀

literally none that we know of. iconic behaviour, honestly. ✨

🍓 retrieve_libravatar 🍓

$cache_location = retrieve_libravatar(location => $cache_location,
                                      email => lc($param{email}),
                                     );

head empty, just returns the cache location where a specific avatar can be loaded. 🦋

but listen: if there isn't a matching avatar, or if there's an error, it hands you back undef. so like... check for that, bestie. don't be out here assuming. 😭

ngl undef can mean either "no avatar, sorry" or "something went wrong" and it will NOT tell you which one. main character mystery energy. 🕵️♀️

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and that's the whole page 💜 this absolute gem is a user contributed perl doc, sitting at perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-04-27, and its full glow-up name is Debbugs::Libravatar(3pm). slay, go serve some avatars. periodt. 💅✨