Re: Net_Whois_Meta

The eternal question, why not include such functionality in Net_Whois? Would be nice if there were some database containing such info, doing it by hand is tedious and hard to mantain. Something like http://www.uwhois.com. Btw, should be nice to add support for IPs too, for example getting the correct whois server (for ex: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space) and returning the info of the query. Tomas V.V.Cox On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 12:21, luke woollard wrote: > I'd like to propose the addition of a new package Net_Whois_Meta. > Net_Whois_Meta performs whois queries for Top level Domain Names. It's a > bit different to the Net_Whois package in that it automatically knows > which registry to use when supplied with a domain name. Several TLD's > are currently supported with plans for expansion. > Download source from: > http://www.hpad.com/download/Net_Whois_Meta-1.0.0.tgz > See it in action: http://ww.hpad.com/domain_names.html > -------------------- > Proposed Package Name: Net_Whois_Meta > Functionality: Perform a whois query for a TLD. Validates a RFC 1032 > Domain Name label. > TLD's currently supported: > .com/.net/.org/.com.au/.net.au/.org.au/.id.au/.asn.au > Reason for submission: The Pear::Net_Whois package doesn't automatically > know which registry to query based on the domain name supplied. > Net_Whois_Meta automatically knows via configuration files. > Implementation: platform independant. Net_Whois_Meta is instantiated and > performed in two lines of code. Easy to use OO API. Easily extendible. > Future Releases: Nameservers, Registrant names etc will be automatically > parsed from the whois-query and assigned to member variables for easy > manipulation etc.. More registry's will be added to cover a wider array > of TLD's. (until they are all supported :) -- Tomas V.V.Cox mailto:cox@idecnet.com