<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">A not that many of the gTLD registrars that have signed the 2013 RAA are new required to support the format [1] specified in the 2013 RAA. See section 1.4.2 [2] for the specific format and requirements, optional fields. This should greatly reduce the number of parsers that you write.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">Also note that all the newGTLDs support a similar format, leaving the ccTLDs as the odd implementations.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">-rick</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">[1] <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/format-2013-10-30-en">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/format-2013-10-30-en</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">[2] <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-2013-09-17-en#whois">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-2013-09-17-en#whois</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Mark Blackman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@exonetric.com" target="_blank">mark@exonetric.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class=""><div>On 14 Apr 2016, at 20:32, Doug Barton <<a href="mailto:dougb@dougbarton.email" target="_blank">dougb@dougbarton.email</a>> wrote:</div><br></span><span class=""><div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">What are people using nowadays to parse whois in Perl? It's been a long time since I had a project like this, and all the things I'm familiar with (Net::Whois, Net::XWhois, and Net::ParseWhois) have all bitrotted to the point that they barely work at all. And searching doesn't provide any shiny new alternatives. <br><br>I can probably write a parser for XWhois pretty easily, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to. <br></div></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>A quick perusal of CPAN suggests </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Whois::Parser" target="_blank">https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Whois::Parser</a>  and</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Whois::Raw" target="_blank">https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Whois::Raw</a></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>- Mark</div><br></font></span></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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