wp.cgi CHANGE Log

Version 1.3.4.1 07 Jan 2007 by bro(at)users.sourforge(dot)net

• modified the regex that gets referral servers from crsnic
• to accept up to 32 char names (was max: 18)
• added a trash boundary to ZapTrash.config
• only in CVS for now
• still need to update SVN for v 1.3.4

Version 1.3.4 06 Jan 2007

• Now generating only HTML 4.01 - I have tried to do pure XHTML 1.1
  but the whois servers' output is just too unpredictable for XML.
Alan tweaked mailto: link generation
• updates to ZapTrash.cgi and whoislist
• a few other very minor tweaks.
• new package released

Version 1.3.3.2 18 Mar 2006 by bro(at)users.sourforge(dot)net

• Updated and expanded ASN recognition (now goes to 39935 instead of 14335
  ( thanks for the head-up, Ted!)
• updates to ZapTrash.cgi
• a few other very minor tweaks.
• so far only CVS, no package

Version 1.3.3 25 Jul 2005

• Alan added an option to ShowAllResults rather than just those of the final whois server
• John disabled CheckSOA() bcse when it fails we get a blank screen!
• - added a link to IANA.org's info for domains with no whois server
• - updated the whoislist for quite a few CCTLDs.
• - changed the stylesheet - shadowed text for Safari.. others should ignore the change

• v. 1.3.2.2 (no package, cvs only)
• 01 Sep 2004 - minor updates to whoislist (.fi) and ZapTrash.config
• 31 Aug 2004 - Updates to ZapTrash but skipping it for whois.norid.no bcse
  %-escaped "no matches" caused subdomain stripping to fail to recurse.
• 31 July 2004 - updated IANA-Reserved ip ranges
• added some info for .*.za domains web whois servers to whoislist
• 20 June 2004 - fixed a wrapped line in wp.config.dist (doh!)
• restored auto-trimming .dk in TrimDomains.

Version 1.3.2.1 09 May 2004

• tweaked regexp to catch Referred Whois Server (was failing to match psi-usa.info)

Version 1.3.2

• tweaked socket call to add a switch for whois.DeNic.DE
  in order to get more than "available/unavailable" -- (sigh..)
• fixed an ugly typo in wp_config.cgi (line 138).
• restored a line (thought redundant) to add /e to non-jp JpNic queries
• tweaks to AccessDenied: no html if cmdline,
• added ACCESS_DENIED message to messages.*.pm
• fixed error in list of Reserved IP Ranges (83/8 -> RIPE)
• blocking calls to rwhois.twtelecom.net (crummy results)
• added several new trash boundaries to ZapTrash.config
• added .gov to Trimmed Domains (only answers for dom.tld)
• added TrashBoundaries for .gov (which is RFC-Ignorant too!)

Version 1.3.1.2 - 19 Jan 2004

• Just after uploading 1.3.1, I caught a flaw in the logic of TrimDomains()
  which was failing to strip a 3rd level dom name and requery on DOM.TLD
  Reduced min level by 1, and added a control loop to prevent infinit loops.

Version 1.3.1 - 18 Jan 2004

• Bug fixes:
  • fixed error detecting whois port (for OSX)
  • restored ASN function (oops)
  • fixed for caching multilingual output from whois servers
  • fixed infinite loop on some queries requiring TrimDomain()
  • fixed mishandling of some error messages (str -> aryref)
    
    
• short-circuit MakeLinks routines when a DOM is not found
• updates to whoislist and TrashBoundaries
• esthetic tweaks to wp_style.css and wp.tmpl
• some code cleanup
• TODO: catch "not found" when embedded in comments (currently Zapped with the Trash!)

Version 1.3.0 - 10 Nov 2003

• WP goes multilingual!
  English, German and French and Vietnamese (Thanks Dung!)
  • WP is now i18n compatible!
    Default charset is now UTF-8 (was ISO-8859-1)
    WP extracts preferred languages from ENV{HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE}
    and selects a language file to match (if we have one).
    (Please contact us if you can translate about 45 strings into your native language.)
  • If a language is selected from the pulldown menu, WP then emits
    a server header with the appropriate character encoding (JP,KR,CN?),
    which may, however, conflict with your preferred language.
• Optional: use Cache::FileCache
  (also requires module Log::Agent, Errors.pm, and module Storeable)
  refresh time is configurable, default = 1 hour.
  which should reduce load on both your server and the whois servers.
  
• Major revision to use of ZapTrash()
  done for all whois() results, not just final ones.
  so that Disclaimers are not cached with the results if Caching (and ZapTrash) are enabled.
  
• Arguments are now passed among subroutines as a hashref
  instead of strings or arrays.
  
• Many tweaks (and a few kludges) to improve performance in Referral Server detection.
  
• Added routine to fall back on previous server's response
  when the last server queried fails to respond.
• Strengthened TrimDomains function - never bother with 5th-level domains and higher
• Improved handling of language selection that understands language preference (value of 'q')
  
• Major code re-formatting (lines <=80chars ;)

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Version 1.2.3 (cvs only) - 26 Sep 2003

• New method of finding Referral Servers.
• Restored ability to query rwhois servers when referred by nics
• Beginning to enable i18n

Version 1.2.2 - 23 Sep 2003

• IPCheck() reworked again. Now looks for ReferralServer, and ignores nic-Handles
  (which were starting to get us some false positives)
  This also tends to minimize the number of queries to Arin.
• Added '+' to all IP queries to Arin -- gets us past those pesky NET-nnn-nnn-nnn answers!
• Alan: Improvements to .ORG lookups.
• Brute-force matching on BR- in CheckHandle() to get to whois.registro.br
• Tweaks to ZapTrash.config

Version 1.2.1 - 26 Apr 2003

• Distribution now contains 'wp.config.dist' instead of 'wp.config'
  to avoid overwriting your own wp.config when you update. (thanks to Robert)
• Alan reworked IPCheck() to eliminate spurious socket calls to whois
• John added reserved IPs to CheckType so we won't bother Iana.org
• Robert added a new parameter in wp.config/wp_config.cgi: AlwaysAskAbuseNet
• Abuse section marked up in a <span id="abuseinformation">
• John: Interface update: form is more compact
  involves changes to wp.cgi, wp.tmpl and wp_style.css
  Parameters are now passed to WhoisTemplate() in a hashref.
• Removed whois-server pulldown menu
  but only commented out in wp.tmpl, so easily re-enabled

Version 1.2.0 - 03 Apr 2003

NEWS: Robert K. has joined the team!

• Should now run out of the box on Windoze ( removed an eval { alarm... } )
  - Thanks, Rob!
• New TrashBoundaries in ZapTrash.config
• Added a few new whois servers to whoislist
• NicSpecificTweaks() revised and expanded
• Major revision to TrimDomains() to eliminate useless calls to Whois()
• CheckHandles() and TagHandles() reworked (again!)
• ProcessQuery() broken into 4 subfunctions so logic is clearer
• Quit trying to match on -AU and -AR handles (sigh..)
• Eliminated rwhois lookups
• Numerous small fixes to many other functions, eliminating many lines of (useless) code!
• All in all, it should be generally faster and more efficient, and much smarter.

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Version 1.1.5.3 15 Mar 2003

• (unreleased) More fixes to ZapTrash and link generation
  (was choking on domains registered at whois.enom.com)

Version 1.1.5.2 10 Mar 2003

NEWS: Alan F. has joined the team!

• new CheckAccess() limits to $HitLimit per hour,
  and denies access for $AccessReset minutes instead of hits per day
• Note: new CheckAccess() obsoletes acladmin.cgi and the cron job.
  Required a tweak to wp.tmpl so be sure to get it from CVS if not grabbing the whole package.
• Added an option to FilterHTML (using HTML::Parser) to prevent x-site scripting attacks
• Also now using POSIX library.

Thanks, Alan!

• Revised and expanded IPV6 lookups.
• Combined all (known) Nic Handles in a hash, now used by both
  CheckHandles() and TagHandles()
• Reworked MakeLinks/TagHandles() (replaced TagParens()
  so more Nic handles get turned into clickable links with far fewer false positives.
• Revised rwhois detection
• Restored functionality of -d[1-4] (debug) switch on commandline.
• Additions of strings to %TrashBoundaries and %NotFoundResult
  (improves recursive stripping of nth-level domains)

Version 1.1.5.1 - 02 Mar 2003

• Fixed logging routine - moved from wp.config to wp.cgi itself.
• Consequently had to modify wp_config.cgi as well.

Version 1.1.5.0 - 01 Mar 2003 by John Bro bro(at)users(.)sourceforge(.)net

• Output now preserves white space better,
  and monospace font (in wp_style.css) preserves the NICs formatting
• ErrorLog has become a variable in wp.config (via wp_config.cgi)
• and path to wp.config specified inside the BEGIN block for all 3 cgi's
  (defaults to './wp.config')
• Debug is now a function
• Lots of internal code cleanup

Version 1.1.4.4 - 14 Feb 2003

• WP now properly obtains Whois Server for .ORG domains from whois.pir.org
  (PublicInterestRegistry.org) like it uses crsnic.net for .com etc.
• Additions (new TrashBoundaries - now 55 servers) to ZapTrash.config
• whoislist uses whois.pir.org for .org lookups.

Version 1.1.4.3 - 25 Jan 2003

• Incorporated new whoislist info, borrowed from Marco d'Itri's whois
• Modified wp.cgi to display URLs and comments for TLDs that do NOT provide a whois service,
  but that are responsible for the TLD.
• Updates made to ZapTrash.config

Version 1.1.4.2

• New wp-install-doc.html contributed by Josh Becket (thanks!)
• acladmin.cgi finally supports ranges of ip numbers
• revised html in acladmin.cgi
  (mostly missing slashes like <input .. />)
• Added config option to specify stylesheet in wp_config.cgi
• fixed bug in whoislist (spurious trailing slashes)

Version 1.1.4.1 - 3 Nov 2002

• Replaced function AskAbuseNet with one from John Levine, postmaster@abuse.net
• more additions to ZapTrash.config and NoReply (recursive) function

Version 1.1.4.0 - 23 Oct 2002

• All markup is now XHTML 1.0 Strict
• NIC websites made clickable
• updates to whoislist and ZapTrash.config

Version 1.1.3.7

• added several rwhois servers (thanks to Geektools.com)

Version 1.1.3.6

• added strings for nic.at and domain-registry.nl to NotFoundResult hash
• updates to whoislist
• fixed an erroneous local reference to $Cfg in wp.cgi

Version 1.1.3.5

• removed a useless 'else'
• added a couple domains to ZapTrash

Version 1.1.3.4

• Restructured part of IPCheck() because Arin.net's reply to queries for RIPE-allocated IP# was matching on APNIC.net.
  It is now written as an explicit if/elsif/else.

Version 1.1.3.3

• Adapted to new ARIN.net format
• Removed $prfx from calls to whois for ARIN.net
• Added -ARIN$ to list of handle suffixes

Version 1.1.3.2

• Revised ZapTrash.config so it is easier to maintain.
  Single variable containing newline separated records, with 3 tab-separated fields: server start-string endstring
  The function constructs its hash from this var.
  Now strips disclaimers from 43+ servers.
• Updated whoislist (still compatible with the GeekTools' whoislist)
• Tweaks for nic.or.kr and added lacnic.net

Version 1.1.3.1

• Adjusted wp.tmpl (html interface) so that only Opera sees the big green WP logo floating on the right. It seems that all (?) other browsers fail to understand style=position:fixed. (sigh...)

Version 1.1.3 - Aug 2002

• Moved project to wp-whois-proxy.SourceForge.net
• added .edu to list of TLDs that do not recurse - only lookup 2LD
• added 10 x.<country>.com domains to NicSpecificTweaks() which then are not stripped to 2LD but are found at centralnic.net
• Adjusted default config and download package to match SourceForge structure (i.e. a ScriptAliased virtual domain)
  Previous tarballs assumed cgi-bin was under the DocumentRoot, and could deliver non-cgi objects.
• Logs are all written to /var/tmp/wp/
• perl interpreter expected to be in /usr/bin (not /usr/local/bin)
• TODO: add more configurability to wp_config.cgi

Version 1.1.2

• fixed routines to recursively remove leftmost subdomain if the whois server doesn't recognize it
  com/net/org TLDs are automatically stripped down to Dom.TLD because none of the whois servers list 3rd level subdomains.
• minor cosmetic tweaks

Version 1.1

• combined templates whois.html & whois-plain.html into a function &WhoisTemplate in whois.tmpl which decides for itself which version of html to deliver.
• fixed bug in wp_config.cgi ( was not updating checkboxes)
• now that we have a web-configurable wp.config, all external files must exist (or be linked to) a dir in @INC if we want to run the program anywhere besides the current dir (e.g. on the command-line)

Version 1.0 - 29 Jul 2002
(Differences between wp.cgi & GeekTools Whois proxy.cgi v.3.13)

• wp.cgi use(s) strict and -w but NOT -T (breaks!)
• All configuration now in wp.config which is written by wp_config.cgi
• Writes out valid(ated) Html4.01 Strict + CSS (wp_style.css)
  Browsers with version <5 get no CSS (whois-plain.html)
• All functions now take explicit inputs
  and return explicit vars/refs
• LOGIC section totally restructured (hopefully more efficient)
  ProcessQuery() defangs and classifies the QueryIn
  and everything thereafter is based on $Type
• All Whois() output is passed around in ArrayRef(s)
• multilevel Debug routines (will be removed in 1.2)
• multilingual support (some) controlled from the html form
  strips multiling characters for English
  will display Japanese Chinese,Korean
  note: deleting [[:ascii:]] doesn't work..
• Nic-Handle queries are mostly working ..
  Need more NICs in the (internal) db
• Combined all IO::Socket calls into one Whois() function
  - several new functions (eliminated several too)
  - all output -> ShowForm() now
• Split DomainDig into several subfunctions so now DomDig is mostly just the logic..
• Split MakeLinks similarly into subfunctions, too.
• AbuseNet is now a checkbox (or -a on CL)
• added a lookup function DomIP() [IP <--> DomainName] -
  handles Abuse requests on IP#s iff they have rDNS
• rewrote ZapTrash (eliminates verbose disclaimers) as an external function with a hash of boundaries:
  configurable in ZapTrash.config where ZapTrash{Nic =>[BeginString,EndString]}
  • easy to maintain and expand
  • deletes non-ascii chars from output
    unless $Lang (-l) =Chinese, Korean or Japanese
• MakeLinks catches more links (but also more false positives..)
• combined CommandLine and CGI versions
  see ./wp.cgi -h

TESTED: on

• Linux (perl 5.6.1 - 5.8.2),
• Mac OS X (through Panther) and Free BSD
• AIX (perl 5.005003),
• Digital Unix OSF1 alpha (perl 5.6.0),
• Windows (ActivePerl/Apache)

KNOWN BUGS:

• none

TODO:

• untaint socket calls.. (what am I missing?)
• implement 'forced' queries (e.g. names, emails) maybe?
• CIDR conversions - someday?

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