NAME

bin/harvest_shim.pl - search gateway between WHOIS++ and Harvest Broker

SYNOPSIS

  bin/harvest_shim.pl [-h host] [-p port]

DESCRIPTION

This program relays WHOIS++ search requests to a Harvest Broker, and returns the results in WHOIS++ result format.

Before passing the WHOIS++ query on to the Harvest Broker, it is munged to remove WHOIS++ search syntax which would confuse the Broker. The search results, if any, are massaged into WHOIS++ templates using the template type FILE

OPTIONS

-h host

The host to contact, or "localhost" by default.

-p port

The TCP port number to use, or 8501 by default.

BUGS

Should be rewritten to allow for stand-alone operation.

SEE ALSO

"harvest_centroid.pl" in bin, RFC 1913

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1988, Peter Valkenburg <valkenburg@terena.nl>, Martin Hamilton <martinh@gnu.org> and Jon Knight <jon@net.lut.ac.uk>. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

It was developed by the Department of Computer Studies at Loughborough University of Technology, as part of the ROADS project. ROADS is funded under the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), the European Commission Telematics for Research Programme, and the TERENA development programme.

AUTHOR

Peter Valkenburg <valkenburg@terena.nl>, Martin Hamilton <martinh@gnu.org>, Jon Knight <jon@net.lut.ac.uk>.