The best way is just create your own whois.cgi - it's actually a simple script:
input form open whois.opensrs.net:43 dump data HTML-ize output (with <pre></pre> tags) And you're done (ours does a little HTTP_REFERRER checking and some reg_exp for proper TLDs, but nothing major aside from that) Charles Daminato TUCOWS Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, domreg wrote: > > Is it possible to access the Opensrs whois server web interface from our > own scripts ? Basically we have a customer level database that knows the > domain names, but we were using a URL like this: > http://www.opensrs.org/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?action=lookup&domain=on-the-net.com > > It gets "access denied" now, I assume, since it is not coming from the > opensrs form page. > > Is there a replacement way to do this ? If so, how ? > > Rich Roth > Domain Registrar @ On-the-Net.com > >
