[Arin-whoisrws] Formulating Web query for network name(s)

[Garth Dubin]

Mike,

>        I would strongly recommend documenting the difference between the
> singular and plural objects.  This isn't even hinted in the API documentation.
> It would also be useful to know what "matrix parameters" are available with the
> nets object, as you've documented in section 4.4.2 for all the other objects.

I will be updating the document to include the network matrix parameters and clarify the differences between the singular/plural.  These updates should be visible shortly.

>        OK, this is all quite useful.  Is there a way to initiate a search
> query and obtain the results in plain text using the "file extension" (i.e.
> ".txt") mechanism.  For example, where does ".txt" get included in...

The file extensions are only documented and supported for the single resources at this time.  Currently, searching is only supported in XML.  Your browser will automatically render it using the XSLT into HTML.  While this may change in the future, the current intent is to provide a way to search for content and then send direct resource links in a variety of formats.

 > In trying all this out, I keep encountering many security dialogs from my
 > browser (IE7), indicating I'm attempting to access secure information.  I'm
 > using http://... URLs, not https://... URLs, so what is the source of these
 > confirmation dialogs, and is there any way to suppress them?  Normally, this
 > is an indication that the Web site prefers to be accessed via https, but
 > neither the demo site nor your mailing list system (where I also ran into
 > this behavior) are configured to accept access via https.

This is probably caused by the header and footer images being pulled from the main (www.arin.net) site.  We're discussing some alternatives to help prevent this from being an issue in production.

 > It looks like you're no longer providing country information in the search
 > results.  Will we eventually see the return of this information?

The country information is available for POCs and organizations if you add the showDetails=true flag to the search output.  As an example:

http://whoisrws-demo.arin.net/rest/orgs;handle=FOO*?showDetails=true
http://whoisrws-demo.arin.net/rest/pocs;handle=ARIN-HOST*?showDetails=true

The network and AS searches will provide references to their corresponding organizations and POCs if you use the showDetails flag but these resources themselves do not have contact information.

> typical truncation situation). Will the limit be bumped up to 256, as
> documented, by the time this system actually goes live?

Absolutely!  I've just verified with our operations department and we are planning on rolling out with a limit of 256 in the production system.

Thank you for providing this feedback.

Regards,

Garth Dubin
ARIN Software Engineer
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