Hi Pete - I've changed my mind, yes, I would like this exposed in the OLE objects of the upcoming issue. My wish list is to be able to:

1: to set the server, say "whois.nic.ad.jp";
2: to set something possibly other than just the IP address, say "210.162.14.25 /e" or the ARIN NetHandle "NET-63-117-216-128-1";
3: make an rwhois / port 4321 request (looks like this is how you do it, but would settle for http / port 80);
4: to recover the response to a text string variable.

Go on: tell me its already there, but I'm too dumb to spot the methods and properties ;¬}

Regards, Robert.