in reply to URL Whitelist

Of course you can use Perl, but it may be best to create a proxy:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTTP-Proxy/lib/HTTP/Proxy.pm

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Re^2: URL Whitelist
by slloyd (Hermit) on Feb 12, 2006 at 07:01 UTC
    A proxy would require me to change the browser settings to use the proxy, right? That is how I am doing it now but all my kids have to do to get around it is change the proxy settings to not use it. I was hoping to hook a bit lower into the NIC so I could watch any browser request.

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

      Set up a redirect rule on your firewall for all traffic coming from that IP address intended for port 80 on a remote machine to pass first through a proxy on the firewall. This requires a NAT box with filter rules you can control.

        This requires a NAT box with ...

        Not quite, all it requires is a routing firewall (it's possible to do even with a bridging firewall, but that requires dirty MAC-spoofing tricks).


        All dogma is stupid.