On Wed 06 Jun 2001, Hiro Dudani wrote:
> I have just finished writing my spam complaints for the last week - 85
> mails in total. Anyway, I had to use whois a lot and now I wonder if it
> would be possible to add whois caching to WWWOFFLE.
>
> The protocol is very similar to finger, so IMVHO this shouldn't be very
> difficult to implement - "whois -h whois.thur.de demon.co.uk" would be
> mapped to /whois/whois.thur.de/demon.co.uk, for example.
How would you convince your whois client to access the info via a proxy?
You can supply a -h option, but then wwwoffle would have to know which
host to connect to itself. There aren't many whois servers such as
whois.thur.de that itself acts as a (smart) proxy.
Paul Slootman
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