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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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