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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I found it, it is a bad uril. I should use something like this,
<a href="http://whois.arin.net/rest/orgs;name=BANDWIDTH.COM">http://whois.arin.net/rest/orgs;name=BANDWIDTH.COM</a>. This is the correct one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Sorry. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks,</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Sean Zhao</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Sean.Zhao@CenturyLink.com</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Zhao, Sean
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 15, 2011 6:01 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'arin-tech-discuss@arin.net'<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Grimes, Ronald<br>
<b>Subject:</b> whois returns me an html instead of an xml....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I am trying to use whois restful to get orgHandle by a company name vs java soap. I used the url
<a href="http://whois.arin.net/ui/query.do?q=BANDWIDTH.COM%20INC">http://whois.arin.net/ui/query.do?q=BANDWIDTH.COM%20INC</a>. I got a huge html format string returned instead of an xml. Did I go to a wrong place or used the wrong way?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thanks,</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sean Zhao<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sean.Zhao@CenturyLink.com</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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