Hi,
in my opinion, the success of a COM client component of OpenSRS must be in
the word Open. There have been several attempts in the past (Java, PHP),
which can be found on Sourceforge, and all are quite interesting.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensrsjava/ and
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensrs-php/
The Java client, which is still in development I believe, could be easily
compiled in the form of a DLL, which can in turn be called from ASP. However
there must be an opensource team to develop the component, because it can
assure the compliance with new APIs & features released by Tucows -as soon
as they come-, and it is not possible to simply write a client using only
ASP, because of its limited support for direct socket conncetions; it should
be (at least) a Visual Basic DLL.
It is quite unbeliveable that no one of the alternative client projects for
SRS addresses the major lack of this system: it is badly supported under
Windows (exept for the wonderful work done by Atlcon.net). As if Unix was
the only system out there...
So I call every VB programmer in the list to have a look at our Opensource
VB projects (http://sourceforge.net/projects/aspdns/ and
http://sourceforge.net/projects/easywhois/) which are two examples, not so
far from what I meant here to explain.
Regards,
gsa
