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Re: How to use CURL + proxy + telnet - is it possible?

From: Alexander Schoepe <a.schoepe_at_sesam.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:40:42 +0100

Am Sonntag, 4. Januar 2004 23:19 schrieb DeiBRAL:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to send a data using CURL to whois database on port 43 via
> telnet. The problem is, that the connections are limited to 100 per day,
> and if a have in ex. 100 visitors a day and one person checks let's say 10
> domains, my IP reaches the limit after aprox. 10 visitors. So I decided to
> have the array of proxies which would be randomly selected and allow me to
> have higher limits on the queries. I would choose randomly one proxy server
> and put the connection to whois via telnet using this proxy.
>
> The problem is that I can't establishe the connection using CURL library.
> Is it possible to do this anyway or I totaly misunderstood the idea.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Dei
>

curl implements http (hypertext transfer protocol) and no other protocol.
cheers,
alex

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Received on 2004-01-07