The application/whoispp-response Content-type
RFC 2958
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RFC - Informational
(October 2000; No errata)
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Network Working Group L. Daigle
Request for Comments: 2958 Thinking Cat Enterprises
Category: Informational P. Faltstrom
Cisco Systems Inc.
October 2000
The application/whoispp-response Content-type
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document defines the expression of Whois++ protocol (RFC1835)
responses within MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
(RFC2046) media types. The intention of this document, in
conjunction with RFC 2957 is to enable MIME-enabled mail software,
and other systems using Internet media types, to carry out Whois++
transactions.
1. MIME Registration Information
To: iana@isi.edu Subject: Registration of MIME media type
application/whoispp-response
MIME Type name: Application
MIME subtype name: whoispp-response
Required parameters: none
Optional parameters: none
Encoding considerations: Any valid MIME encodings may be used
Security considerations: This content-type contains purely
descriptive information (i.e., no directives). There are security
considerations with regards to the appropriateness (privacy) of
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information provided through the use of this content-type, and the
authenticity of the information so-provided. This content-type
provides no native mechanisms for authentication.
Published specification: this document
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Leslie L. Daigle
leslie@thinkingcat.com
Intended usage: common
2. whoispp-response Syntax
The following grammar, which uses ABNF-like notation as defined in
[RFC2234], defines a subset of responses expected from a Whois++
server upon receipt of a valid Whois++ query. As such, it describes
the expected structure of a whoispp-response media type object.
N.B.: As outlined in the ABNF definition, rule names and string
literals are in the US-ASCII character set, and are case-insensitive.
server = goodmessage mnl output mnl endmessage nl
/ badmessage nl endmessage nl
output = full / abridged / summary / handle
full = 0*(full-record / server-to-ask)
abridged = 0*(abridged-record / server-to-ask)
summary = summary-record
handle = 0*(handle-record / server-to-ask)
full-record = "# FULL " template serverhandle localhandle
system-nl
1*(fulldata system-nl)
"# END" system-nl
abridged-record = "# ABRIDGED " template serverhandle localhandle
system-nl
abridgeddata
"# END" system-nl
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summary-record = "# SUMMARY " serverhandle system-nl
summarydata
"# END" system-nl
handle-record = "# HANDLE " template serverhandle localhandle
system-nl
server-to-ask = "# SERVER-TO-ASK " serverhandle system-nl
server-to-askdata
"# END" system-nl
fulldata = " " attributename ": " attributevalue
abridgeddata = " " 0*( attributevalue / tab )
summarydata = " Matches: " number system-nl
[" Referrals: " number system-nl]
" Templates: " template 0*( system-nl "-"
template)
server-to-ask-data = " Server-Handle:" serverhandle system-nl
" Host-Name: " hostname system-nl
" Host-Port: " number system-nl
[" Protocol: " prot system-nl]
0*(" " labelstring ": " labelstring system-nl)
attributename = 1*attrbyte
attrbyte = <%d33-127 except specialbyte>
attributevalue = longstring
template = labelstring
serverhandle = labelstring
localhandle = labelstring
hostname = labelstring
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