And lo, Karl Groves didst speak in alt.www.webmaster:

> This is probably a more appropriate question for comp.lang.php but I like
> you guys better.
>
> I'm looking for a way - using PHP - to get *only* the abuse contact for
> an
> IP address. Anyone know how to do this?

Assuming a *nix server with shell access to the whois command, try this on
for size:


<?php

if (isset($_GET['ip']) && preg_match("/(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}/",
$_GET['ip'])) {

echo "Checking {$_GET['ip']} . . .\n";

if (preg_match("/(abuse@[\S]+)/i", `whois {$_GET['ip']}`, $match)) {
$abuse = $match[1];
echo "Abuse email address: $abuse";

} else echo "No abuse email address found";

} else echo "Invalid IP or No IP Given";

?>


The script will accept IPs sent via HTTP in the form:
/abuse.php?ip=123.123.123.123 Modify as you see fit.

Note the IP regular expression is a simple one which will also allow IPs
like 999.999.999.999 to get through.

Grey

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