Hey I have a tough problem I'm trying to solve, I have TOR on my server and am working on a tool to connect to WHOis Servers, which use the TCP protocol on port 43, for example, whois.crsnic.net is the '.com' whois protocol to see if domains are available. How would I code in PHP something that will make a connection through the TOR service and give me back a responded message? http://archives.seul.org/or/cvs/Aug-2005/msg00178.html I found some info on that link above that might help but I'm very confused. Any help is appreciated and I will pay for assistance as I really need to figure this out. By the way, just send the information to the whoIs server as domain.com+(endofline character for windows), and it should respond back.