Having an API that is compatible with more than perl, is great. I'm all for perl and unix, however at my company I don't get to choose the OS we run, and perl is just horribly slow on windows. We would love a .net, cold fusion, asp, etc.. interface.
Simply having your API work mainly for unix does make things more difficult on ISPs that run windows. I don't know the comparison of demand versus unix, but there IS demand for windows based servers.
Our interface has not worked for over a year, because for some reason we just can't make the opensrs perl scripts work correctly on windows 2003. It almost works, but at the last submit, it just hangs, and the user calls us up, or buys their domain somewhere else. We would make more money, and hence opensrs make more money if we could just have an interface that worked for us.
Brad Thompson wrote:
Tucows....
What's the issue here with providing and open XML standard that will work with (.net, java, perl, Cold Fusion, asp, php, the list goes on...) any client language?
I (and it appears others) just don't understand why you are sticking with the outdated perl structures.
As a minimum, write some middleware code between the rest of the world and your backend systems.
Brad Thompson
Matt Andreko wrote:
It was at http://ccs.tucows.com/blog
I have been awaiting the preview release 2, which was due around "the end of December [2004]"...
I wish they'd just come out with a good interface for asp.net or other languages. The non-standard XML kinda sucks... (maybe they're waiting for us to move to wildwestdomains.com with their asp.net api...) The new ccs interface looked nice, but didn't work on windows 2003 (at least with what testing I could do with the assistance of the Tucows support).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Joey deVilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Christian Roy wrote:
If the API that tucows provides (in perl) isn't in the language that you
need, I recommend googling for the API in your language. I saw API in PHP and ASP and I wouldn't be surprised if there's an API in other languages.
FYI, you can find the PHP client at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensrs-php/
Ir was created by Colin Viebrock, who now works in our Content division. It's pretty cleanly designed and you can see an example of how to use it at a personal site developed by Steve D'Sa, one of our sales engineers, at:
http://apihelpdesk.com/
I'm going to also throw up some documentation for this client as well (I'm considerably more comfortable with PHP than Perl).
Wasn't there another php client (PHP5) that was in testing?
Thanks,
ed
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