Tom: How about using the Perl API? Isn't that easier to use then emulating
https calls?
Charles: It seems to me that setting up one CGI script which gives back only
the most important data in some delimited text format should not take more
than a day, once someone is on the server-side and is familiar with the
system...
- Csongor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Daminato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tom Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 8:20 PM
Subject: RE: How to retrive a list of all our customers domains
> As long as you don't try to get all 10,000 of your domains (and info) at
> once, we probably won't notice. The logic being, you haven't kept track
> until now - if it takes a week to parse, let it do so...
>
> We're painfully aware of the lack of "data dumps" our system currently has
> for our resellers. We WILL get to it, but it's a back burner issue. If
the
> data is THAT important, it should be tracked locally - it's when you
decide
> to start tracking (after some time) that becomes tricky. It'll happen...
> until then, Tom's tricks will help (thanks Tom!) - as long as you remember
> to be patient ;)
>
> Charles Daminato
> Product Manager (ccTLDs)
> Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Tom Brown
> > Sent: March 7, 2001 1:55 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: How to retrive a list of all our customers domains
> >
> >
> >
> > did you guys break the sslbot again? (doesn't look like it. :) I had to
> > write another one for a different supplier and came up with a much more
> > robust page parsing algorithm... :-) [split out the tables, then split
out
> > the rows... then parse the rows] Almost looking forward to rewriting
that
> > sslbot script :-)
> >
> > Considering that forcing clients to write robot scripts to pound your
> > servers into the dirt is a just generally a bad idea, and a simple text
> > output screen to dump everything would be _trivial_ to write... you guys
> > don't make this easy... (I know we've discussed this before, and I don't
> > hold you responsible Chuck.... :)
> >
> > That said, I have no real desire to grab all the customer fields, and I
> > would probably do that via a whois lookup instead anyway... much easier
to
> > parse text output than HTML, and it should be faster than using an SSL
> > connection.
> >
> > Taking it from that point of view, the sslbot link shown below is a fine
> > starting point, parsing whois output is trivial compared to handling the
> > RWI authentication and parsing HTML ... e.g. use the sslbot to get the
> > list of domains, then write a short script to hit the whois server for
> > each domain listed by the sslbot.
> >
> > the only gotcha there is if OpenSRS gets upset because you pounded on
> > their whois server too many times.
> >
> > -Tom
> >
> > (p.s. anyone who wants to respond to me, please send To: me, and cc: the
> > list if you want... I don't generally read the list except for OpenSRS
> > staff postings, but the filters will pickup directly address mail...)
> >
> > On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Charles Daminato wrote:
> >
> > > You can use a variation of a script found here:
> > >
> > > http://www.opensrs.org/archives/dev-list/0102/0156.html
> > >
> > > or an older version (not using curl) here:
> > >
> > > http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0012/0147.html
> > >
> > > The second script doesn't work as is - it'll take some tweaking, but
the
> > > core pieces are there.
> > >
> > > Charles Daminato
> > > Product Manager (ccTLDs)
> > > Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > > > Behalf Of Guy Baconnière
> > > > Sent: March 7, 2001 12:33 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: How to retrive a list of all our customers domains
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > We want to import into our SQL database all contacts fields
> > and billing
> > > > informations of all customers domains registered.
> > > >
> > > > We cannot have access to the list of all domains by the API without
> > > > having the login/password of each customer. We need a "reseller" API
> > > > that can give us access to all informations available manually on
> > > > the reseller web
> > > > interface (http://resellers.opensrs.net/) like contacts fields,
> > > > billing status, etc.
> > > >
> > > > Is there any way to do that directly by perl script without
> > > > having our customer
> > > > user and password ?
> >
> >
>
>
