Revision history for Perl extension Net::Whois::Raw.
0.01 Jul 05 2000
- original version; created by h2xs 1.19
0.02 - 0.22 ???
- ???
0.23 Mar 25 2003
- only exports &whois by default, the other variables are exportable still.
- incorporated new whois servers ( thanks Toni Mueller <support@oeko.net> )
- now tests the main tlds
- added some more regexen to strip out disclaimers and such ( for $OMIT_MSG > 2 ).
- moved %servers to %Net::Whois::Raw::Data::servers
0.24 Nov 18 2003 Walery Studennikov
- fixed whois server for .org domains and add new whois servers
for multilingual domains
- fixed recursive whois requests for .org domains
- new fail-check and strip patterns added
- more verbose error messages
- added support for third level domains
- some bugfixes
0.25 Nov 21 2003 Walery Studennikov
- fixed multilingual domains whois via whois.melbourneit.com server
- whois_config function for setting config variables
(if setting imported variables $OMIT_MSG, $CHECK_FAIL etc.
doesn't work for some reason, for example because of
namespace problems in mod_perl scripts)
0.26 Jan 09 2004 Walery Studennikov
- added recursive whois requests for .cc domains
- fixed recursive whois requests for whois.crsnic.net
0.27 Feb 10 2004 Alex Kapranoff
- patch to check availability of .info and .biz domains
0.28 Feb 20 2004 Alex Kapranoff
- fixed documentation for pwhois.PL
0.29 Feb 24 2004 Walery Studennikov
- fixed extra rules which strips the copyright message or disclaimer
- removed pwhois.PL. "pwhois" is shipped now instead.
- data structures in Net/Whois/Raw/Data.pm reformatted
- new strip patterns for whois.crsnic.net
0.30 Mar 15 2004 Walery Studennikov
- added strip rules for whois.dns.be
0.31 Mar 19 2004 Walery Studennikov
- more robust recursive whois queries
0.32 Apr 07 2004 IVAN
- small fix allows the module to work under 5.005
0.33 Apr 21 2004 Walery Studennikov
- new whois server in Data.pm - whois.regtime.net
0.34 May 18 2004 Richard Poole
- new whois server in Data.pm - whois.centralnic.com
0.35 Jun 29 2004 Walery Studennikov
- fix of regexp pattern in check_existance
0.36 Jul 22 2004 Richard Poole
- fix for Raw.pm that ensures that we do not get confused when
looking up a domain which has many entries in the whois database
(for WHOIS.CRSNIC.NET)
0.37 Aug 11 2004 Walery Studennikov
- fixed recursive whois requests for .tv domains
0.38 Sep 23 2004 Walery Studennikov
- fixed recursive whois requests for .ws domains
- strip patterns for whois.directnic.com
- fix strip mechanism in case of recusive whois requests
0.39 Oct 29 2004 Walery Studennikov
- more fixes for Raw.pm that ensures that we do not get confused when
looking up a domain which has many entries in the whois database
(for WHOIS.CRSNIC.NET)
0.40 Dec 09 2004 Walery Studennikov
- add fail pattern for whois.dns.be
0.41 Dec 17 2004 Luis Moreno
- fix caching when using a particular whois server in whois function
0.42 Jan 11 2005 Sun Guonian
- update hostname of CN whois server
0.43 Feb 04 2005 Walery Studennikov
- new options (exported variables): @SRC_IPS, $CHECK_EXCEED
0.90 Mar 03 2005 Walery Studennikov
- total rewrite / restructuring of module
- new exported function: get_whois
0.91 Mar 04 2005 Walery Studennikov
- fixed bug (introduced in v0.90) that caused fault of DNS server whois queries
- new test for DNS servers whois
0.92 Mar 28 2005 Walery Studennikov
- new fail check patterns
0.93 Apr 13 2005 Walery Studennikov
- updated WHOIS server for AU zone
0.94 Apr 26 2005 Marc Jauvin
- TIMEOUT implementation fix
0.95 May 16 2005 Walery Studennikov
- new parameter "-a" (source ip address) in pwhois script
0.96 Jun 28 2005 Walery Studennikov
- ???
0.97 Jul 26 2005 Bernd Ahlers <b.ahlers@ba-net.org>
- update for DENIC whois server
0.98 Sep 19 2005 Bernd Ahlers <b.ahlers@ba-net.org>
- small typo fixes
0.99 Jan 10 2006 Walery Studennikov
- added whois server for .KZ
1.0.0 Jan 11 2006 Walery Studennikov
- new major release: added obtaining WHOIS results via HTTP:
now .IN and .KZ domains are queried via HTTP by default.
To force querying other domain via HTTP you should provide
server name 'www_whois'
1.0.1 Jan 13 2006 Danil Krivopustov <KrivopustovDA@regtime.net>
- fixed obtaining WHOIS of IP addresses (split_domname function)
1.1.0 Jan 16 2006 Walery Studennikov
- improved obtaining WHOIS of IP addresses.
Patterns for recursive WHOIS queries were borrowed
from Net::Whois::IP. Many thanks to Net::Whois::IP author Ben Schmitz
1.1.1 Jan 18 2006 Walery Studennikov
- fix WHOIS-over-HTTP: added missing function koi2win,
1.1.2 Jan 18 2006 Walery Studennikov
- switch .spb.ru and .msk.ru to HTTP
1.02 Feb 04 2006 Walery Studennikov
- change version numbering scheme
- change pynycode names of IDN names
1.03 Mar 21 2006 David Parry
- change whois server name for .CA
1.04 Mar 22 2006 Bram
- added whois.eu server
1.05 Apr 03 2006 Walery Studennikov
- added new options to pwhois script
1.06 Apr 03 2006 Walery Studennikov
- fix manual page for pwhois script
1.07 Apr 12 2006 Martin Lee
- replaced .JP whois server address
1.08 Jul 26 2006 Reto Grossenbacher
- changed WHOIS servers for .CH and .LI domains
1.09 Jul 27 2006 Reto Grossenbacher
- fixed strip patterns for yesterday's changes
1.10 Jul 30 2006 K. J. Cheetham
- addons to %Net::Whois::Raw::Data::exceed hash
1.11 Aug 10 2006
- changed whois server for .aero (Danil Krivopustov)
- added fail check for whois.melbourneit.com (Yulia Shtyrjakova)
1.12 Aug 16 2006 Roman Filippov
- changed whois server for .gs
1.13 Aug 20 2006 Doug Barton
- Addons + restyling of Net::Whois::Raw::Data
1.14 Aug 24 2006 Doug Barton
- Addons to Net::Whois::Raw::Data
1.20 Nov 18 2006 Walery Studennikov
- !INTERFACE CHANGE: CACHE_TIME now specifies time in minutes,
not in hours. Hours are too rough for some applications. Sorry :(
- Bumped version number for the above reason
1.21 Apr 13 2007 Danil Krivopustov
- fixes for Net::Whois::Raw::Data
1.22 May 16 2007 Walery Studennikov
- Removed legacy RACE encoding support
- Default cache time set to 60 minutes
- Fixed timeout behaviour. Now timeouts are more robust
(Ticket http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27097)
- Small refactoring
1.23 May 22 2007
- Added $DEBUG initialization (Walery Studennikov)
- Path for obtaining complete WHOIS info for .name domains (Yulia Shtyrjakova)
1.24 Aug 15 2007 Walery Studennikov
- More descriptive error message when can't create socket
1.30 Sep 06 2007 Walery Studennikov
- Carp::confess instead of die when can't connect
- Don't use Exporter anymore; revised export list (can cause some incompatibilities, so version number bumped)
1.31 Sep 06 2007 Walery Studennikov
- fexes in pwhois caused by today's module changes
1.32 Sep 07 2007 Walery Srudennikov
- added support for WHOIS requests for any object (not only for domain),
for example, WHOIS requests for registrars now supported
1.33 Oct 10 2007 Walery Srudennikov
- added whois servers for many CentralNIC TLDs in New::Whois::Raw::Data
1.35 Nov 06 2007 Walery Studennikov
- strip copyright notices for .mobi domains
1.36 Nov 15 2007 Walery Studennikov
- update documentation (setup variables description)
- change "use vars" to "our" in Net::Whois::Raw::Data
- start to build postprocessing framework (added %Net::Whois::Raw::Data::postprocess)
1.37 Nov 20 2007 Walery Studennikov
- added strip patterns for whois.godaddy.com, whois.paycenter.com.cn, whois.enom.com
1.38 Nov 21 2007 Walery Studennikov
- added strip patterns for whois.dotster.com
1.39 Nov 22 2007 Walery Studennikov
- added strip patterns for whois.nordnet.net
1.40 Feb 04 2008 Sergey Kotenko
- fixed parsing of excessive querying for whois.ripn.net
1.41 Feb 08 2008 Sergey Kotenko
- added %Net::Whois::Raw::POSTPROCESS
1.42 Feb 25 2008 Sergey Kotenko
- added whois server (http) for .VN
1.43 Feb 29 2008 Sergey Kotenko
- common code moved to Net::Whois::Raw::Common. Can be used by other modules.
1.50 Mar 11 2008 Sergey Kotenko
- version bounce due to a large refactoring
- some more code moved to Net::Whois::Raw::Common
- new caching mechanism
- tests writen for Net::Whois::Raw::Common
- tests writen for checking the correctness of whois-servers
1.51 Mar 12 2008 Sergey Kotenko
- test 02-internet.t fixed to work correctly on MS Windows.
1.52 Mar 26 2008 Walery Studennikov
- .asia support added
1.53 Mar 31 2008 Sergey Kotenko
- fixed warnings on cache writing
1.54 Jun 28 2008 Matsui Shinsuke
- .ac support added
1.56 Jul 31 2008 Pavel Odintsov
- .vn support fixed
- HTTP POST requests fixed
1.57 Aug 11 2008 Walery Studennikov
- Removed annoying warning from Net/Whois/Raw.pm
1.58 Nov 07 2008 Walery Studennikov
- Added .BZ support (www_whois)