whois search from a c program

[tetradtech]

I've looked, and performed a search on this site, but I cannot find any references to how to perform a whois lookup from a c program.

I'm new to C. I want to write a little cgi program that performs a whois lookup for a name entered into a form.

I know I can just type "whois domainname.com" from the command line in linux and get the result. How do I do that, and trap those results in a c program.

Please help.

Tim

[moi]

use a pipe

[tetradtech]

thank you - but I'm REALLY new - those examples don't help much. Can you give me a specific piece of code?

[tetradtech]

Thank you - that helps!

[moi]

Originally posted by moi
use a pipe

Originally posted by Salem
Or even popen()

uhhh.....

[Hammer]

pipe(). Salem was just clarifying.