Hi Arife,
I also have a request: once the prefix cgi is returning v6 results as expected, could you modify the riswhois cgi to also put up a "Query RIS database" button for IPv6 queries? James did the first versions of the riswhois cgi, but I guess that after the restructuring this is now SED responsibility.
Yes, you're right. I put into ToDo list.
About ETA, I can not say something definite this week. I'm second line support for RIPE DBM, and it's bit busy. Next week I will get back to you.
OK, that's perfectly fine.
Those CGIs are implemented Mason and Perl. One CGI has more than one components. Form, result, and errors are printed by seperate html/cgi files. We can easily pass the ARGS from one to another, but the result page is not the one which is executing CGIs. That means if you copy and paste and send somebody the result page with arguments, it will not work. Since the CGI that executes the code is different than the one that produce the results. Because of that I do not think it's not so useful to have the ARGs in URL.
When I had a chat with Kevin about it, he suggested to add a link somewhere on the page giving the URL. I do not know what you think about that. If you want we can go for that.
The most important thing is that by exchanging URLs people can point each other to results of a specific RIS query. Usually, you would go to the top of the browser and copy the URL there, but if that's not possible a link on the results page, something like "The URL for this query is $url" would work too. BTW, nice to see the query form is repeated on the results page! -- Rene