Re: OpenSRS API Question

[inbox]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 18:44:28 -0500 (EST)
 Christopher Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I *NEED* to implement Tucows domain registration soley via a pure Windows OS implementation ....

Have you considered finding a Windows 2000 box to put IIS and ActivePerl
on so you can get into the guts of it and test things?

Yes I have, both the servers and the consideration.

If I lived on a desert island with no internet connection to ask for help, I'd take that approach and very likey damage a perfectly functional production server.

Thus I've scrapped that idea.

If you were trying
to reinvent a car would you ignore a working example car?

Exactly!
So where is the example of OpenSRS that only uses Windows Win32, etc., calls??????

Having
something that does what you're trying to do that you can get into the
guts of and examine and break and compare to has always been a much less
painful path to realization than the best written spec I've ever seen. It wasn't /that/ long ago in net terms that the concept of the code being the spec was popular.

Using ActivePerl's PerlExe it wouldn't be terribly hard to strip down the standard client into a command line tool that would run across a variety of Windows versions. We have had very good experience with PerlExe and stripping down the client to put the innards into something else, but I have no interest in running OpenSRS on Windows, so I've never done the two together.

If only I were so lucky ....

--
</chris>

"Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance."
- Sam Brown