[9988] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: URL schemes containing +, -, or .
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rickard Schoultz)
Fri May 17 06:40:29 1996
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 12:34:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rickard Schoultz <schoultz@sunet.se>
To: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199605151527.LAA00919@www20.w3.org>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote:
> Regarding whois and whois++ I had a prototype of a whois++ protocol module
> in the libwww code some time ago. However, we quickly ran into the problem
> that whois and whois++ use the same port number (43 if I recall). As the
> protocols are made in such a way that it is impossible to distinguish the
> two from each other it is virtually impossible to automate the access.
That problem is fixed. Just before whois++ went to RFC status, we
allocated a separate port (63) for whois++, just because of this. There
was no way to separate the two if run on the same port.
-Rickard
Rickard Schoultz <schoultz@sunet.se>
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