http://www.rmnet.it/cgi-bin/whois (improved)

Dear  Paolo,

> 
> Hi,
> I've slighty modified this form, now:
>  - as somebody suggested non standard ports are now supported.
>    A patched version of the whois client with alternate port is at
>    http://www.rmnet.it/cgi-bin/whois.c
>  - consistent security checks on client execution and error return.
>  - minor cosmetics.
> 
> Greetings all,
> 	/pab
> 

Many thanks for your nice web-page/whois-client. We (GARR-NIS) will
very likely use it soon to give better access to our database to web
navigators.

While testing the interface we have discovered the following:

1- some additional source value will be useful in the source popup menu
   (for example MCI and CANET)
2- domain is missing from the query-type popup menu

3- if you specify server-to-search/other than some options are not used,
   namely -s (source) and -r (do not recurse)

   i.e.
 Results of /usr/local/bin/whois -h whois.nis.garr.it 192.12.192.0
   instead of
 Results of /usr/local/bin/whois -r -h whois.nis.garr.it -s MERIT 192.12.192.0

Ciao!

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