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CGI Access Webhost???? Allowed to create socket???

Apr 30, 2003, 1:45 PM
vikingsc
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CGI Access Webhost???? Allowed to create socket???
Does anybody know of any reasonably priced CGI Access Web hosts that will allow you to create a socket in order to contact the WHOIS Server? I have tried a lot of hosts and so far none of them let me do this. I need this ability to run a domain look up script. I also need this ability to be able to connect to search engine submission pages for a search engine submission script I am going to run on my site. Any help would be appreciated.

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Apr 30, 2003, 1:50 PM
Paul
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You could use LWP instead.
Apr 30, 2003, 2:32 PM
vikingsc
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Apr 30, 2003, 2:32 PM
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I wouldn't know how to do that. I am new to CGI and can basically just fill in the blanks or change a variable here or there. But in any case it seems that most of the webhosts I've tried have there permissions set that they can't connect to to other servers. Would this change anything using LWP?

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Shawn