I have tried to contact the Geektools whois proxy authors through a form submission on their web site (http://www.geektools.com/comments.php) regarding some improvements (in my opinion, anyway) I'd like to contribute to their whois proxy script.

Currently (as of revision 3.1.5), their Perl, web-based whois proxy script is vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks implemented by embedding html or javascritpt in whois-served domain contact data. The proxy happily displays the html/javascript unescaped.

My solution was to build an option in their proxy.cgi script which uses HTML::Filter to filter out specific HTML tags before displaying the whois information.

We will be deploying this solution on our local installations of the whois proxy script. Their code suggests they'd rather receive patches than complaints about their code. I'd like to submit a patch for this fix, as well as possible future patches to generally clean up the code and make it easier to modify and maintain. But I never heard anything back from them when I submitted comments on their web site.

Does anyone have any better contact information for the fine folks over at Geektools?

Thanks!

Alan

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