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Re: whois server features


From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:48:22 +0000

On 07/01/2015 20:07, Bill Woodcock wrote:
Correct.  It gets you a blob of text.  Sometimes, a blob is just a blob.
Other times, it contains what _appear_ to be key-value pairs, but are
instead loosely-formatted text.  Other times, it contains
textually-represented key-value pairs that are programmatically
generated from an actual database, and can thus be re-imported into
another database.  Depends what’s on the back end.

If only we could create a committee to fix whois...

Nick


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