Hiro Dudani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
>
> Any thoughts on this? Good idea, bad idea, or am I the only one who
> would ever use something like that?
When I added the finger protocol I did think that a whois lookup would
also be useful. I was trying to think of other things that would be
usefully requested when offline and cached for later use. Other than
whois the only one that I thought of was PGP public keys.
I will add the whois lookup to the TODO list. The only problem that I
have with it is that the request is more variable that for finger. A
finger request can only be for a username, but a whois request can be
for any string, including spaces (see RFC 945 for examples). I don't
see that this should be a big problem though.
Another alternative for the current time is to find a web server with
a form that allows whois lookups. These requests can be cached by
WWWOFFLE already.
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.6/user.html
