Wow! Thanks for all your replies! Now that you have all determined what kind of parent I am, let me fill you in a bit more.

I have four children, all girls, ages 11,9,6, and 4. Our computers are in the living room. Our internet provider also provides a pornography filter on our internet connection.

I teach my kids about the dangers of the internet all the time. My intention for a whitelist program is to provide a protection until they understand. Even my 4 year old gets on the internet -- there is no reason to expose her to garbage if I can prevent it.

Now for me. I love to figure things out and build solutions where I can... I could use an existing program perhaps but then if I wanted it to work differently, I would not have control to fix it. So far, except for the lack of a good threading model, Perl has been my language of choice for hundreds of solutions I have wrote.

Now you have the inside story folks... Thanks again for your comments. :)

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by me
http://www.basgetti.com
http://www.kidlins.com

In reply to Re^2: Can I use Http::Proxy to intercept and deny URLs? by slloyd
in thread Can I use Http::Proxy to intercept and deny URLs? by slloyd

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