Spambayes + HTTP proxy server
Paul Paterson
hamonlypaulpaterson at houston.rr.com
Sat Feb 1 17:47:06 EST 2003
After seeing it mentioned on the newsgroup, I just started trying out
Amit Patel's proxy server (http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/proxy.html)
which does a good job of blocking all sorts of annoying web page behaviours.
It occured to me that it would be possible to utilize this proxy server
idea with the Spambayes classifier to come up with an all-Python web
filter (suitable for use as a parental control or company internet monitor)
Essentially the proxy could be taught to classify pages by signature and
block or restrict access to questionable pages rather than the
traditionally buggy (in the sense of reporting false hits) keyword based
approaches.
Does anyone have any experience in this area to say whether this
approach is workable?
Paul
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