Smartfilter blocks solely on URL. So the pages content didn't get flagged for profanity, but the general site had been. They have a URL checker here: http://www.trustedsource.org/urlcheck/
I just checked "http://theonion.com"; and it has been classified as both "humor/comics" and "profanity" so I was pretty close on my guesses before. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Thanks for the details, Craig. > > I also had a look through Secure Computing's wikipedia page[1] and a > more general category[2]. From what that says and from what you > describe, it appears that SmartFilter allows/blocks content based > solely on URL. Is that correct? Or does SmartFilter do on-the-fly > content filtering also? > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Computing > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-control_software > > Regards, > - Robert > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Craig Tatham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Work is using a service called Smartfilter from Secure Computing. It > > categorizes mostly by site but does both site and IP address. It also > > categorizes by sections of sites but not necessarily individual pages. > Also, > > each site may have up to three categories. > > For example (and this is just hypothetical) > > http://theonion.com may be categorized as news, humor, profanity > > http://theonion.com/downloads/ may be categorized as media downloads > > http://theonion.com/article/nastymalware.aspx might be catagorized as > > malicous/malware > > We may block profanity and malware so we would block two of the three > sites > > above even though we allow news and humor (as examples). > > Hope that helps. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
