Linking to Internet Whois question

Rem

I have listings of internetdomains for my customers.

I would like (from within Aware IM) pass a question to some Internet Whois database with the domainname as a variable.

The answer might be returned in whatever form, it´s just for viewing so it´s not that important.

Does anyone know how make this happen (and as some of you know by know html is not my thing so if I should use it, please provide the syntax)

Also if you know any good Whois databas that can look up all domains it would be a bonus!

Thanks!

/Rem

greg

Rem

I guess you need to find out which one of Whois to use, how they take requests and then set up a communication channel to talk to it. PayPal in the Library application may give you some hints

greg

Rem

Ok, I will look into that!

Thanks Greg!

/Rem

tford

Rem,

You could also building a URL to view at Network Solutions & use DISPLAY URL to see the info.

See example at http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=cnn.com

Tom

Rem

I´m trying to use an attribute that is plaintext (HTML format) and present it as a link but the configurator doesn´t buy this syntax:

company.domain=<a href="http://whois.domaintools.com/cnn.com"> http://whois.domaintools.com/cnn.com</a>

Is this possible somehow? Or can I make it appear as a hyperlink in some other way?

/Rem

tford

Rem,

1- Assuming you have BO info like this:

BO: Customer
Attribute: DomainName - Plain Text -- this will hold info like: cnn.com
Attribute: WhoIs - Plain Text + calculated

2- Make a Customer rule:
Customer.WhoIs='http://whois.domaintools.com/'+Customer.DomainName

3- Make a Process called CustomerDisplayWhoIs with:
1- Customer as process input
2- 1 rule: DISPLAY URL Customer.WhoIs

4- Make a Query that lists all Customers. Have process from #3 above an operation of that query. Click on the operation link & the URL built with #2 will display on the screen.

Hope this helps.

Tom

Rem

Sounds a bit complicated.

This calcutations works form me and I can se it as plain text:

Customer.WhoIs='http://whois.domaintools.com/'+Customer.DomainName

Is there no way of showing this result as a hyperlink in the form, without involving processes and querys?

/Rem

tford

Rem,

The easiest way to display this URL from the form is to do steps #2 & #3 above, then make the Process in #3 an Operation of the form.

Tom