BW Whois is a versatile tool that enables users to perform whois lookups through a user-friendly web interface or command line interface.
One of the key features of BW Whois is its self-detecting CGI support. This feature helps to prevent data harvesting and provides multiple security options in the CGI mode. Additionally, users have the option of using an SQL database to cache results, which works with either MySQL or PostgreSQL.
BW Whois also boasts support for multiple outgoing IP addresses, available/not available results, and fully customizable HTML output. Furthermore, users have access to an external TLD table for ALL top-level domains, as well as automatic support for netblocks.
In this latest release, BW Whois now supports multiple outgoing IP addresses, which can be beneficial when dealing with Whois servers that block queries per IP address. Support for PostgreSQL has also been added, in addition to the already supported MySQL database feature. Lastly, the software has improved its mod_perl support and non-standard whois server compatibility.
Overall, BW Whois provides an advanced yet simplified tool for acquiring Whois data, making it a solid choice for anyone in need of such data.
Version 5.0: N/A