whois @5.0.7 support idn/iconv

[roland@…]

To be able to use the idn and iconv features of whois, especially when working with .de domain names, whois needs to be compiled with HAVE_IDN and HAVE_ICONV options set.

see the following files in the upstream distribution:

• Makefile
• whois.c

(this also requires LIBS and INCLUDES set in the Makefile)

Personally, I would like to have both set by default.

[roland@…]

Cc Me!

[roland@…]

After additional research, please upgrade priority!

Reason:

DENIC recently upgraded its WHOIS servers. Due to strict, explicit US-ASCII calls that whois does, when not configureed with IDN/ICONV support, currently ALL QUERIES FAIL when the response data contains any UTF-8 (e.g. Umlauts in the contact information which is very common).

Examples

rmoriz@Delbarestivale:~$ whois web.de --verbose
Using server whois.denic.de.
Query string: "-T dn -C US-ASCII web.de"

% Error: 55000000013 Invalid charset for response

whois configured with idn/iconv support on debian/ubuntu:

whois web.de --verbose
Using server whois.denic.de.
Query string: "-T dn,ace web.de"

% Copyright (c) 2010 by DENIC
% Version: 2.0
% 
% Restricted rights.
% 
% Terms and Conditions of Use
…
(correct whois information skipped)

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to roland@…:

Personally, I would like to have both set by default.

Gute Idee.