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On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 12:16, Tristan Le Guern <tleguern@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I will not be able to attend our next meeting so here is a list of
> elements of the Libravatar API for which the implementations diverge. If
> you can discuss them a bit so we can choose which behaviour is correct
> we could then have a more robust documentation.
>
> So:
>
> * What to do if the input hash is too small or too big ?
>
>    + ivatar returns an HTML document, the home page ;
>    + libravatar and libravatar.cgi both return the file nobody.png.
>
> * What to do if the size option is supplied but has no value ?
>
>    + ivatar and libravatar both return an avatar of the default size ;
>    + libravatar.cgi returns the HTTP status code 400.
>
> * What to do if the size option is supplied but the value is not an
> integer ?
>
>    + ivatar and libravatar both return an avatar of the default size ;
>    + libravatar.cgi returns the HTTP status code 400.
>
> * What to do if the size option is supplied but the value is 0 ?
>
>    + ivatar and libravatar both return an avatar of the default size ;
>    + libravatar.cgi returns the HTTP status code 400.
>
> * What to do if the size option is supplied but the value is negative ?
>
>    + ivatar crashes (issue #21) ;
>    + libravatar returns an avatar of the default size ;
>    + libravatar.cgi returns the HTTP status code 400.
>
> * What to do if the size option is supplied but the value is too big ?
>
>    + ivatar returns an avatar of the maximum allowed size (512) ;
>    + libravatar returns an avatar of the requested size ;
>    + libravatar.cgi returns the HTTP status code 400.
>
> * What to do if the default option is supplied but has no value ?
>
>    + ivatar and libravatar both return the user's avatar ;
>    + libravatar.cgi returns the HTTP status code 400.
>
> * What to do if the default option is supplied but has an unhandled
> value (such as d=unicorn) ?
>
>    + ivatar and libravatar both return the user's avatar ;
>    + libravatar.cgi returns the HTTP status code 400.
>
> * What to do if the default option is supplied but has an unhandled
> value (such as d=unicorn) and the forcedefault option is set to true ?
>
>    + ivatar returns an HTML document, the home page ;
>    + libravatar doesn't implement forcedefault ;
>    + libravatar.cgi returns the HTTP status code 400.
>
> As an optional point: Should the list of possible value for the default
> option be explorable by the client ? I think an HTTP request with the
> OPTIONS verb on the /avatar resource could do the trick.
>
>
Hey, thank you for the list! I will go through the issues and try to solve
them together with Oliver.

M.


> Regards.
>
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