Bug#211364: ITP: libnet-xwhois-perl -- Whois Client Interface for Perl5
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-17
Severity: wishlist
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* Package name : libnet-xwhois-perl
Version : 0.90
Upstream Author : Vipul Ved Prakash <mail@vipul.net>
* URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Net/Net-XWhois-*
* License : Perl, i.e. GPL+Artistic
Description : generic whois client for perl
- From the CPAN module's description, which I'll probably shorten a bit
(I see no need for the Perl internals to appear in a package description):
The Net::XWhois class provides a generic client framework for doing Whois
queries and parsing server response.
The class maintains an array of top level domains and whois servers
associated with them. This allows the class to transparently serve
requests for different tlds, selecting servers appropriate for the tld.
The server details are, therefore, hidden from the user and "vipul.net"
(from InterNIC), gov.ru (from RIPE) and "bit.ch" (from domreg.nic.ch) are
queried in the same manner. This behaviour can be overridden by specifying
different bindings at object construction or by registering associations
with the class. See "register_associations()" and "new()".
One of the more important goals of this module is to enable the design of
consistent and predictable interfaces to incompatible whois response
formats. The Whois RFC (954) does not define a template for presenting
server data; consequently there is a large variation in layout styles as
well as content served across servers.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux linux 2.4.21-rc1 #3 Fri May 2 16:13:38 CEST 2003 ppc
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8
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