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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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