On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 09:13:25PM +1000, Craig Sanders took time to write: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:40:45PM -0400, Gene Grimm wrote: > > Does anyone know of a utility or script that already does this, or at > > least the whois lookup? > > there are some perl modules to do that. they probably won't do the > whole parsing job, but they will provide functions to do the lookups for > you.
[..] > note that there is no consistent output format between whois servers. > this makes whois basically useless as a source of data. There are some attempts to correct that. For .CNO Registrars, this may help: Gandi::WhoisExtract available at http://open.gandi.net/ It parses owner, contact emails, expiration and creation date of nearly 80 Registrars (that is 80 distinct output) with a Perl OO API. -- Patrick. ``C'est un monde qui n'a pas les moyens de ne plus avoir mal.'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
