Thanks again for your comments...
Regards,
sA
At 09:37 PM 9/11/01 +0200, you wrote:
> > Let me second what Gregory said here and help perhaps help make things
> > crystal clear -- the RWI scripts do tend to be fragile and inefficient.
> I've
> > written a number of them myself and I always cringe at the programming
> > techniques I have to take.
> >
>
>It should also be noted that there is some text in the agreements we
>signed to
>that effect that it is not allowed to query the RWI with automated scripts ...
>
>I still think the best solution to give us resellers the ability to
>completely
>go with our own scripts/layout/etc. would be to provide a mail robot. A mail
>robot is like an API because you specifically need to play within a given
>template structure but it's MUCH easier to program for because the only task
>is to "compose" an email containing the correct data. No hassle of talking
>with another server, sessions etc. Scott, I think you should really evaluate
>going with an email robot system, in the end it would completely eliminate
>the
>need to programm a client with different functionality in parallel to the
>RWI.
>Most of the main ccTLD registrars we deal with are using mail template based
>systems and they just work very nice, fast and give us complete freedom at a
>reasonable amount of programming on our side.
>Also, it should not be too much of an effort for you because you have simply
>to parse those emails (like you accept and enumerate the values from a
>variable array on a submitted web page) and then send the data off to your
>API. It should be possible to accept those data values with very few changes.
>
>
>Kai
>
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