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Rory Winston resolved NET-164.
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Resolution: Fixed
Fix Version/s: 2.0
> WhoisClient should not use the platform's default Encoding
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> Key: NET-164
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NET-164
> Project: Commons Net
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Ulrich Mayring
> Fix For: 2.0
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> Attachments: FingerClient.java
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> Currently the WhoisClient is extending the FingerClient, which sends its
> request like so:
> output = new DataOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(_output_, 1024));
> output.writeBytes(__query.toString());
> This obviously uses the platform's default encoding, which may be workable
> for Finger requests, but today's Whois services oftentimes support foreign
> characters via some IDN scheme and therefore usually run under utf-8. It
> should therefore either be configurable which encoding is used for the
> request, or, alternatively, the query interface should be changed to not
> accept strings, but only bytes. Then it's the client's responsibility to do
> the appropriate thing.
> As it is now, there is no way to use this WhoisClient for IDN-aware Whois
> registries.
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