Keyvan Nayyeri

Google provides a very good service for web surfing and blocking phishing and malware pages.  The service is named Google Safe Browsing API which is actually a web API for developers to download a blacklist of suspected pages and check their own URL to see if they're included in the list.  From the Google Safe Browsing API site:

The Safe Browsing API is an experimental API that enables client applications to check URLs against Google's constantly updated blacklists of suspected phishing and malware pages. Your client application can use the API to download an encrypted table for local, client-side lookups of URLs that you would like to check.

Here are some of the things you can do with the Safe Browsing API:

• Warn users before clicking on links that appear in your site when they lead to malware-infested pages.
• Prevent users from posting links to phishing pages from your site.
• Check a list of pages against Google's lists of suspected phishing and malware pages.

This API is already used in Mozilla Firefox to block phishing URLs.

Last week, Thomas Freudenberg suggested to implement this API in Community Server and after some conversations, I joined him and we decided to implement this idea as a part of Subkismet project to be used by .NET developers then import it to Community Server.  We're still working on the code and hope to release an Alpha version as soon as possible or as soon as Microsoft adds a good support for RFC2396 URLs to .NET Framework!!.

Speaking of .NET and RFC2396 URLs, do you know any third party open source component to work with these URLs?

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