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ZOH,
Once I've sent this thing to the list, but it never
apperaed there. (Actually because of some settings Charles had to put me on the
list again - thanks Charles!)
But here it is again...
Some technical things after disputes an policies
and stuff...
Let me know what you think.
- Csongor
----- Original Message -----
From: Csongor
Fagyal
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 7:01 PM
Subject: Suggestion for a new IF Let me know what you guys think about the following
idea:
Some of us has problems accessing our data in
the OpenSRS DB because the PERL interface seems a
bit complicated, while the reseller interface only
allows manual access. One could emulate the 'manual procedure'
using scripts but I feel this is kind of weird. What if we would
have an access to our data through standard https?
I do not want to go deep into talking, as a
programmer I think some code snippets explain more than words. So what
about this "new interface" for accessing our data (some technical thing
ahead):
<form
name='https://resellers.opensrs.net/rsprawaccess.cgi'>
<input name=rspid value='...'
type=hidden>
<input name=password value='...'
type=hidden>
<input name=action value='getactivedomains |
getpendingdomains | registerdomain | getdomaindata |...etc...'
type=hidden>
<input name=replyformat vaue='xml | text'
type=hidden>
<input .... other fields, like
domainid, regexp, etc. ...>
</form>
After submitting, this form would give us an XML or
a text delimited answer of the query (action). This way there would be an
easy-to-use IF to our own data (and we shouldn't make our own tables... which is
so frustrating...) Also, since this is SSL, there's a very good password
protection (at least the same you have when you use the manual interface).
Handling HTTPS calls is very easy in basically any languages. This would
also solve the long awaited 'immediate/manual registration' thing, also, as you
could send out a 'register this domain' message, too. You could get your domains
and read it to an EXCEL file... or import it to a database... many many things
like this.
Was I given the opportunity to access the OpenSRS
tables :-), I doubt it would take more than a day of my time to have a beta
version of this. It is just another interface to the same tables and (maybe)
routines.
What do you think, RSPs? OpenSRS?
If the developers would do something like this I
would be glad to gather some of the actions (see above) we need... then
there would be a request-for-comments process for 2 days :-) It is really
not important to have a full version of this, only some very important features
should be implemented (at first). But at least a few things, like 'register'
action would be sooooo easy to do :-) and soooo good to have. You know, it is
already there, there's just a small gateway we miss... I'll do a few
example pages if you do this, I promise. And an example PERL script, so others
could use it.
Do you find this reasonable? Or should I take a
look into the PERL docs and find out that this has already been
done?
I am so sad I am not on the server side!
:-)
- Csongor
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