Whatever happened to the WebWiz WHOIS script?
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Topic: Whatever happened to the WebWiz WHOIS script?
Posted By: cprompt
Subject: Whatever happened to the WebWiz WHOIS script?
Date Posted: 03 April 2007 at 1:29pm
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Greetings all, I find myself needing a good, ASP-based WHOIS script, and there's not much out there. I found a few DLLs that don't work very well under Windows Server 2003 and I keep coming across references to the WebWiz WHOIS component. Alas, it seems not to exist any longer, even though reference is made to it on the purching form. Does anyone know if I can still purchase it and if it works ok? Thanks. |
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 04 April 2007 at 1:28pm
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The whois application simply used the HTTP XML object that is used in AJAX to connect to another site and pinch the whois data from those sites. The problem is it eventually didn't work as the whois sites blocked access from people leaching off of them, and so was dropped. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: c6bro
Date Posted: 20 April 2007 at 2:13pm
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I too was using the WebWiz script. Sick of people going on about AJAX. Its been out for ages but no one had reliased the power. I created my first one: http://www.upload.co.uk/domains/ajax-domain-whois.asp - http://www.upload.co.uk/domains/ajax-domain-whois.asp Simply uses the above and ASP |
Posted By: cprompt
Date Posted: 20 April 2007 at 3:07pm
Now that's funny because that's what I was doing 
Yeah, I was worried about that too. Luckily I found a freeware winsock wrapper for ASP that lets me query whois servers directly. |
-boRg- wrote:Posted By: cprompt
Date Posted: 20 April 2007 at 3:09pm
Nice use of AJAX 
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Posted By: c6bro
Date Posted: 20 April 2007 at 3:15pm
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Thanks, Its my first script using ASP and Ajax.
I wouldnt wory too much about the whois servers. As long as you connect to them the right way . i.e via port 40 something then you shouldnt be banned.
Still got a lot more to do on it . Theres a few bugs
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Posted By: cprompt
Date Posted: 20 April 2007 at 3:20pm
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The main whois servers (eg rs.internic.net for .com, .net) are there to be queried, it's just that you can't use the HTTPXML object to query them (they're on port 43). I think that's why most people use the HTTPXML to pull the data from another whois website as it's much easier. It's naughty though and I'm finding more and more web-based whois sites implementing captcha to stop it. <edit to correct attrocious spelling> |
Posted By: c6bro
Date Posted: 23 April 2007 at 1:45pm
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Thanks That was what i was trying to say.. The script i developed querys on port 43 its faster and works with allwhois servers . in other words you can query any domain TLD as long as you know which are the athoritve whois servers. They are widely available if searched on google. <Not edited spelling is attrocious>
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Posted By: c6bro
Date Posted: 23 April 2007 at 1:48pm
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If anybody has any more ideas i can use to make it better please feel free to comment.
I was going to incorporate the overture keywords but its too slow and the results are similare to google suggest.
http://www.upload.co.uk/domains - http://www.upload.co.uk/domains |
Posted By: c6bro
Date Posted: 27 April 2007 at 10:43am
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Ive made this available to download if anyone wants it. go to http://www.upload.co.uk/websiteScripts.asp - http://www.upload.co.uk/websiteScripts.asp |