Comments on How To Test Your Dansguardian, Safesquid, POESIA, Parental Internet Filter Or We-Blocker Keyword Filter Anytime Anywhere
How To Test Your Dansguardian, Safesquid, POESIA, Parental Internet Filter Or We-Blocker Keyword Filter Anytime Anywhere Keyword filters block unwanted web pages on the basis of potentially fallen words found in them. However, to be sure that a page is indeed offensive, keyword filters nowadays are not designed to block sites on the basis of just about any potentially offensive word. Instead they measure the number of potentially offensive phrases and often the number of times they occur so as to allow a limited number of occurrences in pages such as those on anatomy, forms requiring gender information, crime reports, statistical reports, administrative information, art etc. The leading keyword blockers like Dansguardian which is extremely popular on Linux or SafeSquid which is popular on Linux and Windows use this method known as a weighed keyword score.
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This is a very nice tool, to check your keyword filter, without being exposed to unwanted web pages.
I would like to share a very little know feature that SafeSquid offers - URL Commands. SafeSquid URL Commands allow you to test the functionality and verify your configurations. For example, if you would like to know if a web page will be blocked by SafeSquid Keyword Filter, all you need to do is check the score that SafeSquid Keyword Filter allots to the web page, without opening the page. For example, if you would like to check the score that SafeSquid Keyword Filter allots to say http://www.playboy.com/ open this URL in your browser http://xx--score.www.playboy.com/ . As you can see, the URL command xx--score. is inserted between http:// and www in the URL. This will display the score that SafeSquid allots to the page, without opening the page in the browser.
| Keyword score for www.playboy.com/ |
| 192 |
Please note that your browser proxy settings should be configured to point to SafeSquid Proxy to be able to use this command.
To know more about SafeSquid URL commands see - http://www.safesquid.com/html/portal.php?page=78
No, if it's banned effectively you won't be able to access that site. The shortcuts offered by Block That won't give you any special privileges. In other words, if YouTube is banned on your system, entering 15 on the shortcuts box won't bypass that ban, although it will attempt to access YouTube the same way it would if you had just typed http://www.youtube.com in the address bar or clicked a link to YouTube.
One of the shortcuts I found was YouTube which I've banned at home. Will it still be possible to access YouTube by entering 15 in the shortcuts box?
A huge Thanks a lot for insights about the Web Filter. your information is very useful to me to prevent any thing when it is related to the web security.