in reply to Net::Whois troubles

Looking at the innards of Net::Whois when it makes a request for maserith.com, the results from the whois server are coming back in a form that Net::Whois doesn't understand. Which is bad news, because even though it's a valid return, Net::Whois can't understand it.

Which leaves you in the position of patching Net::Whois, perhaps. :)

On the question of whether it's (un)reliable: you might take a look at this message from the modules@perl.org list. I'm not in a position to say one way or the other who's in the right :), but it certainly does seem that Net::Whois needs some changes/fixes.

And with that in mind, you might take a look at the module mentioned in that message, Net::ParseWhois. I just tried it myself, and it works for maserith.com. The interface seems to be identical to that of Net::Whois; just change instances of Net::Whois to Net::ParseWhois and you're done: 

    use Net::ParseWhois;
    my $w = new Net::ParseWhois::Domain "maserith.com";
    ....

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(Ovid) Re(2): Net::Whois troubles
by Ovid (Cardinal) on Nov 30, 2000 at 06:25 UTC
    btrott, that is exactly what I was looking for. It seems to work perfectly and when I dumped it into a much larger and more substantial script, everything came out exactly the way I wanted it. After reading about the dispute that's keeping this module from CPAN, all I can think is that everyone needs to put their frickin' egos aside and let people use this.

    Personally, I'm going to send an e-mail to the author thanking him for creating this and perhaps urge him to upload it anyway (I'll have to reread the correspondence, but we really could use this module). I wonder how many other people were beating their heads over this situation and were being forced to do it by hand?

    A thousand thanks!!!

    Cheers,
    Ovid

    Update: I read the correspondense too quickly. I'll definitely thank the author, but I think I was premature in thinking I would urge him to upload regardles of the dispute. I have to confess that I sympathize with Abraham's feeling's about Net::Whois's source code (well, he hinted at them, he didn't explicitly state them). It looks pretty ugly.

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      see my code at Whois+DNS for a cool application of Net::ParseWhois.
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