Hello Paul!
Wednesday June 06 2001, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed 06 Jun 2001, Hiro Dudani wrote:
>> 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?
How do you convince your finger client to do that? Same problem there,
but finger proxy functionality is already implemented in WWWOFFLE.
My solution was to replace my finger client with a one-line batch:
@wget -q -O - http://jerry.localdomain:8080/finger/%2/%1
Something similar would work for whois, too.
> You can supply a -h option, but then wwwoffle would have to know which
> host to connect to itself.
And WWWOFFLE would have to listen on port 43. But that isn't neccessary.
As I said, whois could be implemented exactly like finger.
> There aren't many whois servers such as whois.thur.de that itself acts
> as a (smart) proxy.
Actually, I don't know of any other. OTOH, the small program used on that
server is freely available and could be included in WWWOFFLE. But I'm not
suggesting that.
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