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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Opera/8.01 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Description of problem: The lookup of .de doesn't work, because lynx is not installed. [kupfer@antwort ~]$ whois 42h.de [Querying http://www.denic.de/en/whois/data.jsp] [kupfer@antwort ~]$ [kupfer@antwort ~]$ whois -vv 42h.de [Debug: Cache = On] [Debug: Force lookup = No] [Debug: Force host = (None)] [Debug: Force port = (None)] [Debug: Config file name = /etc/jwhois.conf] [Debug: Follow redirections = Yes] [Debug: Display redirections = No] [Debug: Whois-servers.net service support = Yes] [Debug: Whois-servers domain = whois-servers.net] [Debug: Raw query = No] [Debug: Rwhois display = (None)] [Debug: Rwhois limit = (None)] [Debug: Force rwhois = No] [Running /usr/bin/lynx -dump -post_data http://www.denic.de/en/whois/data.jsp ] [Querying http://www.denic.de/en/whois/data.jsp] [kupfer@antwort ~]$ After installing lynx it works. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.2.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. whois 42h.de Additional info:
Thanks for your report. Unfortunately the situation can't be solved with rpm; jwhois, if so configured, can use other web browsers (w3m, maybe others) instead of lynx, if they can submit POST forms in a way supported by jwhois. Requiring lynx would be unnecessarily specific, requiring "a web browser" not specific enough. The only way I can see to represent the complete information is to add "Provides: jwhois(supported-browser) = %{jwhois-version}" to each of the supported browsers; that's just overengineered IMHO.