cgi-bin/whois?query broken

Heiko,

On 2001-06-18 09:39:43 +0000, Heiko Blume wrote:
> 
> when inserting objects with <angle brackets> like this:
> 
> import:       from AS1273
>               action pref=100;
>               accept <AS-ECRC> AND NOT {0.0.0.0/0}
> 
> the query http://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/whois?query=AS5427
> will not display the data correctly:
> 
> import:       from AS1270
>               action pref=100;
>               accept  AND NOT {0.0.0.0/0}

Thanks for spotting this - we've patched the CGI script to fix this
problem.  All HTML tags (meaning <, >, ", and &) have been escaped when
filtered for the user.

> also, AFAIR previously the http output made
> the 'ASxxx' strings as links to the objects
> which was very convenient. will we see that
> again?

Currently the web interface is a very simple script that adds markup
tags to the output of the Whois server running on port 43.

The RIPE NCC is currently working on a new version of the web-based
query engine designed for improved ease of use.  We'll make sure
it adds links for queries on as many parts of the output as possible -
ASxxx definately among them!

-- 
Shane Kerr
Database Software Engineer
RIPE NCC