WhoisClient should not use the platform's default Encoding
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Key: NET-164
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NET-164
Project: Commons Net
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Ulrich Mayring
Currently the WhoisClient is extending the FingerClient, which sends its
request like so:
output = new DataOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(_output_, 1024));
output.writeBytes(__query.toString());
This obviously uses the platform's default encoding, which may be workable for
Finger requests, but today's Whois services oftentimes support foreign
characters via some IDN scheme and therefore usually run under utf-8. It should
therefore either be configurable which encoding is used for the request, or,
alternatively, the query interface should be changed to not accept strings, but
only bytes. Then it's the client's responsibility to do the appropriate thing.
As it is now, there is no way to use this WhoisClient for IDN-aware Whois
registries.
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