On Thu, 29 May 2003, Ian Watkinson wrote: > What I am ideally looking for is something in perl that provides me with > the sme funcionality as the normal system command whois, as a bare > minimum.
Net::ParseWhois exists and I use it for commercial stuff. The maintainer doesn't really maintain it, and as the people who run whois databases change formats arbitrarily, it needs real users to keep it up-to-date. However, join the mailing list, and various people post updates and minor changes. Primarily it exists for com/net/org, though personally I'm just updating my version to extract more data for .uk domains. My effort to make it work on non-recursive whois systems could probably do with being redone by someone who really understands objects, but what's there works, and makes it fairly simple to add new TLDs and new whois formats. There was some plottings for me and someone else to officially take over maintainance, but I've been lacking the tuits to actually sort that. the hatter
