Zebedee Gray wrote:
I am trying to work out if it is possible for a parent to run a program in the background that will log the contents of chat pages that their children visit. What I would then want to do is run a program that would list the contents and allow the parent to see if the child was visiting someone they don't know or possibly being 'groomed' by a paedophile for a later meeting. I'm looking at using Perl with a Tk based GUI, but have no idea about the relevant modules that I would want to use - anyone got any ideas?I can't think of any easy way to do this through a Perl route, unless you feel up to writing a proxy server in Perl - this could certainly be done with LWP and maybe some DB access modules, but might take a little while to code. Anyone out there done this already?
I think that it would probably be easier to install an off-the-shelf proxy and set it to hold all pages visited. You could then go back and peruse at your leisure.
Although I wouldn't know a chat page if you hit me around the head of it, if it's something that permits constant interaction, I'd guess that it would be sending header information saying "don't cache this" - this could be a snag if using a proxy because it may not hold onto such pages. So, writing your own LWP-based proxy which ignores things like the nocache pragma may be the solution; get it to cache all pages in a certain directory, then you can peruse them at your leisure with a web browser.
Conclusion: have a hunt on Google, possibly including LWP Perl and proxy in your search.
Cheers
M
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Matthew Smith
IT Consultant - KBC, South Australia
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