Whois(3pm)

💖 Whois(3pm) — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so this is Whois, a Perl thingy from the 3pm section of the manual (that's the Perl module section, iykyk). It's a whole module for making queries to whois servers. slay. let's get into it ✨

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🦋 NAME 🦋

Whois — it's a Perl extension whose whole entire job is making queries to the whois servers. that's it, that's the vibe 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

here's what it looks like in the wild, copy-paste ready, no cap:

  use Whois;

  $whois = new Whois('Host' => 'whois.ripe.net');

 die("Failed to create object") unless(ref($whois));

 die($whois->GetError()) if($whois->GetError());

 if($whois->Query("BAT-RIPE")) {
    printf("Query error: %s\n", $whois->GetError());
    exit;
 }

 my $result = $whois->GetResult();

 if($result) {
    print "$result\n";
 }
 else {
   printf("No results: %s\n", $whois->GetError());
 }

 $whois->Close();

like, the flow is: make the object, vibe check it, fire off a Query, grab the GetResult, and Close on your way out. main character energy fr fr 🌈

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so warning: this section is stub documentation. it was created by h2xs, and it looks like the author of the extension was negligent enough to leave the stub unedited. 😭

so like… the description is literally:

Blah blah blah.

yeah. that's the whole description bestie. not me reading the docs and getting Blah blah blah 💀 the tea is that the real info lives in the code and in the synopsis above. periodt.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Timur Bakeyev <timur@ripe.net> — the icon who wrote this 🫶

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• perl(1) — go read it, bestie, it's the blueprint 💜

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and that's a wrap on the whole page! this beauty comes to you from perl v5.32.0, dated 2021-01-26 🌸 stay curious, stay iconic, and go query some whois servers responsibly ✨💖