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>A search around failed to turn up an obvious whois server, either as part
>of Debian or even just source code - did I miss something?
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Neale;
I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I modified the
finger gateway cgi script to do a web based whois from cgi-bin on the
webserver.
The finger gateway script came in the cgi scripts with Debian. I just
changed finger to whois. seems to work well.
Here it is:
<---begin script-->
#!/bin/sh
# I don't know who wrote the "finger gateway" script I hacked this from
WHOIS=/usr/bin/whois
echo Content-type: text/html
echo
if [ -x $WHOIS ]; then
if [ $# = 0 ]; then
cat << EOM
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>WHOIS Gateway</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Whois Gateway</H1>
<ISINDEX>
This is a gateway to "whois". Type a domain name in your
browser's
search dialog.<P>
EOM
else
echo \<PRE\>
$WHOIS "$*"
echo \</PRE\>
fi
else
echo Cannot find whois on this system.
fi
cat << EOM
</BODY></HTML>
EOM
<--end script-->
