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NAME
Net::Whois::Raw - Perl extension for unparsed raw whois information
SYNOPSIS
use Net::Whois::Raw qw( whois );
$s = whois('perl.com');
$s = whois('funet.fi');
$s = whois('yahoo.co.uk');
### if you do "use Net::Whois::Raw qw( whois $OMIT_MSG $CHECK_FAIL
### $CACHE_DIR $CACHE_TIME $USE_CNAMES $TIMEOUT );
### you can use these:
$OMIT_MSG = 1; # This will attempt to strip several known copyright
messages and disclaimers sorted by servers.
Default is to give the whole response.
$OMIT_MSG = 2; # This will try some additional stripping rules
if none are known for the spcific server.
$CHECK_FAIL = 1; # This will return undef if the response matches
one of the known patterns for a failed search,
sorted by servers.
Default is to give the textual response.
$CHECK_FAIL = 2; # This will match against several more rules
if none are known for the specific server.
$CACHE_DIR = "/var/spool/pwhois/"; # Whois information will be
cached in this directory. Default is no cache.
$CACHE_TIME = 24; # Cache files will be cleared after not accessed
for a specific number of hours. Documents will not be
cleared if they keep get requested for, independent
of disk space. Default is not to clear the cache.
$USE_CNAMES = 1; # Use whois-servers.net to get the whois server
name when possible. Default is to use the
hardcoded defaults.
$TIMEOUT = 10; # Cancel the request if connection is not made within
a specific number of seconds.
Note: as of version 0.21, extra data will be loaded only if the
OMIT_MSG or CHECK_FAIL flags were used, in order to reduce memory usage.
DESCRIPTION
Net::Whois::Raw queries NetworkSolutions and follows the Registrar:
answer for ORG, EDU, COM and NET domains. For other TLDs it uses the
whois-servers.net namespace. ($TLD.whois-servers.net).
Setting the variables $OMIT_MSG and $CHECK_FAIL will match the results
against a set of known patterns. The first flag will try to omit the
copyright message/disclaimer, the second will attempt to determine if
the search failed and return undef in such a case.
IMPORTANT: these checks merely use pattern matching; they will work on
several servers but certainly not on all of them.
(This features were contributed by Walery Studennikov despair@sama.ru)
AUTHOR
Original author Ariel Brosh, schop@cpan.org, Inspired by jwhois.pl
available on the net.
Since Ariel has passed away in September 2002:
Past maintainers Gabor Szabo, gabor@perl.org.il, Corris Randall
corris@cpan.org
Current Maintainer: Walery Studennikov despair@cpan.org
CREDITS
Fixed regular expression to match hyphens. (Peter Chow,
peter@interq.or.jp)
Added support for Tonga TLD. (.to) (Peter Chow, peter@interq.or.jp)
Added support for reverse lookup of IP addresses via the ARIN registry.
(Alex Withers awithers@gonzaga.edu)
This will work now for RIPE addresses as well, according to a
redirection from ARIN. (Philip Hands phil@uk.alcove.com, Trevor Peirce
trev@digitalcon.ca)
Added the pattern matching switches, (Walery Studennikov
despair@sama.ru)
Modified pattern matching, added cache. (Tony L. Svanstrom
tony@svanstrom.org)
CHANGES
See file "Changes" in the distribution
CLARIFICATION
As NetworkSolutions got most of the domains of InterNic as legacy, we
start by querying their server, as this way one whois query would be
sufficient for many domains. Starting at whois.internic.net or
whois.crsnic.net will result in always two requests in any case.
NOTE
Some users complained that the die statements in the module make their
CGI scripts crash. Please consult the entries on eval and die on
perlfunc about exception handling in Perl.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2000-2002 Ariel Brosh. Copyright 2003-2003 Gabor Szabo.
Copyright 2003-2003 Corris Randall. Copyright 2003-2003 Walery
Studennikov.
This package is free software. You may redistribute it or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
I apologize for any misunderstandings caused by the lack of a clear
licence in previous versions.
COMMERCIAL SUPPORT
Not available anymore.
LEGAL
Notice that registrars forbid querying their whois servers as a part of
a search engine, or querying for a lot of domains by script. Also,
omitting the copyright information (that was requested by users of this
module) is forbidden by the registrars.
SEE ALSO
perl(1), Net::Whois, whois.
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