On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 07:49:16AM +1200, 2Day Chief Enthusiast wrote:
The data is pulled on-demand from the CGI interface at Waikato, and is presented in a ripe-181-alike format. The whole thing will undoubtedly fall apart as soon as someone at Waikato lets a web monkey near cgi-bin
Dont expect DOMAINZ to tell you before or even after they change it either!
The RFC format whilst great for visual inspection at the command line, is not so crash hot for those who prefer their machine to do the reading.
What RFC do you mean?
The RFC does not specify a standard schema from which each data element can be uniquely identified. One still has to parse the output of whois in order to get a single useful element such as 'country'.
But that's not particularly difficult parsing though. I mean, it's a case of piping it through awk '/^country:/ { print $2; }' I don't really see how that's so difficult... Although if you're talking about the nasty old format sporadically available via the NSI whois server, I agree :) Joe --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog