Hmmm...
Good that you said that :-) I am about to redesign our site, and I am not
yet familiar with the API - all that I saw was a "GET DOMAIN" action :-)
How about this: I register domains using a modified version of
reg_system.cgi (or something like that). I only store the new ID that is
returned from the OpenSRS server (tell me, is this an 'orderid int(8)
primary key auto_increment index' ? :-)), and when I need the data, I use
the API to query the your database.
Does this sound okay?
- Csongor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Daminato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Csongor Fagyal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tom Brown"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 8:52 PM
Subject: RE: How to retrive a list of all our customers domains
> Two things..
>
> Using the Perl API means you have to be able to login to each domain, and
> you can't retrieve a full list of domains from the API (yet) - that
wouldn't
> work. Gotta use the web interface
>
> Also, it may not take more than a day - we just can't spare a programmer
to
> do that yet. There are other implications - prevent hammering? Do we
give
> customized formats? (i.e. selectable fields to report) What information
do
> we provide? Simple contact information, or transaction audit? (audit
being
> more expensive to the system than just plain info) - many questions. We
> have to design it, code it, test it, train internally, then release it -
and
> fix bugs along the way, hopefully not tooooooo many by the time it gets to
> you folk. This'll take more than a day :)
>
> Charles Daminato
> Product Manager (ccTLDs)
> Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Csongor Fagyal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: March 7, 2001 2:48 PM
> > To: Charles Daminato; Tom Brown; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: How to retrive a list of all our customers domains
> >
> >
> > Tom: How about using the Perl API? Isn't that easier to use then
emulating
> > https calls?
> >
> > Charles: It seems to me that setting up one CGI script which
> > gives back only
> > the most important data in some delimited text format should not take
more
> > than a day, once someone is on the server-side and is familiar with the
> > system...
> >
> > - Csongor
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Charles Daminato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Tom Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 8:20 PM
> > Subject: RE: How to retrive a list of all our customers domains
> >
> >
> > > As long as you don't try to get all 10,000 of your domains (and info)
at
> > > once, we probably won't notice. The logic being, you haven't kept
track
> > > until now - if it takes a week to parse, let it do so...
> > >
> > > We're painfully aware of the lack of "data dumps" our system
> > currently has
> > > for our resellers. We WILL get to it, but it's a back burner issue.
If
> > the
> > > data is THAT important, it should be tracked locally - it's when you
> > decide
> > > to start tracking (after some time) that becomes tricky. It'll
> > happen...
> > > until then, Tom's tricks will help (thanks Tom!) - as long as
> > you remember
> > > to be patient ;)
> > >
> > > Charles Daminato
> > > Product Manager (ccTLDs)
> > > Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > > > Behalf Of Tom Brown
> > > > Sent: March 7, 2001 1:55 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: RE: How to retrive a list of all our customers domains
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > did you guys break the sslbot again? (doesn't look like it.
> > :) I had to
> > > > write another one for a different supplier and came up with a
> > much more
> > > > robust page parsing algorithm... :-) [split out the tables, then
split
> > out
> > > > the rows... then parse the rows] Almost looking forward to rewriting
> > that
> > > > sslbot script :-)
> > > >
> > > > Considering that forcing clients to write robot scripts to pound
your
> > > > servers into the dirt is a just generally a bad idea, and a
> > simple text
> > > > output screen to dump everything would be _trivial_ to
> > write... you guys
> > > > don't make this easy... (I know we've discussed this before,
> > and I don't
> > > > hold you responsible Chuck.... :)
> > > >
> > > > That said, I have no real desire to grab all the customer
> > fields, and I
> > > > would probably do that via a whois lookup instead anyway...
> > much easier
> > to
> > > > parse text output than HTML, and it should be faster than using an
SSL
> > > > connection.
> > > >
> > > > Taking it from that point of view, the sslbot link shown
> > below is a fine
> > > > starting point, parsing whois output is trivial compared to
> > handling the
> > > > RWI authentication and parsing HTML ... e.g. use the sslbot to get
the
> > > > list of domains, then write a short script to hit the whois server
for
> > > > each domain listed by the sslbot.
> > > >
> > > > the only gotcha there is if OpenSRS gets upset because you pounded
on
> > > > their whois server too many times.
> > > >
> > > > -Tom
> > > >
> > > > (p.s. anyone who wants to respond to me, please send To: me,
> > and cc: the
> > > > list if you want... I don't generally read the list except for
OpenSRS
> > > > staff postings, but the filters will pickup directly address
mail...)
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Charles Daminato wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > You can use a variation of a script found here:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.opensrs.org/archives/dev-list/0102/0156.html
> > > > >
> > > > > or an older version (not using curl) here:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0012/0147.html
> > > > >
> > > > > The second script doesn't work as is - it'll take some tweaking,
but
> > the
> > > > > core pieces are there.
> > > > >
> > > > > Charles Daminato
> > > > > Product Manager (ccTLDs)
> > > > > Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > >
> > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > > > > > Behalf Of Guy Baconnière
> > > > > > Sent: March 7, 2001 12:33 PM
> > > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > > Subject: How to retrive a list of all our customers domains
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > We want to import into our SQL database all contacts fields
> > > > and billing
> > > > > > informations of all customers domains registered.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > We cannot have access to the list of all domains by the
> > API without
> > > > > > having the login/password of each customer. We need a
> > "reseller" API
> > > > > > that can give us access to all informations available manually
on
> > > > > > the reseller web
> > > > > > interface (http://resellers.opensrs.net/) like contacts fields,
> > > > > > billing status, etc.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is there any way to do that directly by perl script without
> > > > > > having our customer
> > > > > > user and password ?
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
