Hi Alex,
Another approach that would take more work but would probably be more
reliable in the long run is to create a whois client app in Rev. It
would use the WHOIS internet protocol and interact directly with a WHOIS
server on port 43. That might enable you to bypass security issues
(on some WHOIS servers anyway).
You could probably start by learning about the WHOIS protocol from any
of the regular RFC repositories around the internet. Here are some
starting places:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html
Also it may be helpful to read the site of one WHOIS client publisher
I'm aware of (and I imagine there are others):
http://www.geektools.com/
I realize this may be an idea whose time has not yet come, but it is at
least another approach to getting WHOIS info.
Best to you -
Phil Davis
alex wu wrote:
Eric,
Thanks for your great assistance! I played around for some domains
and found that this projects might be quite complicated for me.
Here's what I found:
1. The output of the whois (tUrl) has a lot of format with different
domain names:
Some use "Expiration date:"
Some use "Expiry Date........."
Some use "Record expires on "
Some do not mention the expiry date at all
Some use "Connection refused connecting to whois.bulkregister.com"
Some use "The domain name you have requested is registered with
Network Solutions. VeriSign WHOIS:
http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index.jhtml";
Etc... etc... etc....
2. Different domain extensions (e.g. .info, .ws, .tv, etc...) use
different whois servers. I need to find out all whois servers!
Thanks and best regards
Alex
--- Eric Chatonet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Alex,
It's very easy :-)
function Expire pDomainName local tUrl ----- put url
("http://www.whois.net/whois.cgi2?d="; & pDomainName) into tUrl
return line lineoffset ("expires",tUrl) of tUrl end Expire
And, for instance:
put Expire("runrev.com") into tDeadLine
Le 28 janv. 06 à 12:01, alex wu a écrit :
I am thinking to use RR to get domain whois information (mainly
the domain expiry date) from
the
domain whois servers. My idea is to monitor the expiry date of a
list of domains. When a stack
open,
it will get the expiry date of the domains from
the
corresponding whois servers.
Anybody do that before? Or can anybody provide
some
guidelines for me. I really have no idea how to
get
started.
Best Regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet
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