[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm interested in a simple content-based internet firewall/filter, > similar to dansguardian (http://dansguardian.org/),
Firewall and filter are two things totally separated! - If you want to do something like a "page filtering", like dansguard and squidguard, you can simple do it with python, because you have to act like a proxy that leave of not visit a page. - If you have to do a firewall... I think you can't, especially if you are on win. Take a look at wipfw (wipfw.sf.net) that do what you want > but written in python, Of course :) and for windows. Why? All that work with networking (and not only that) work better with *nix OS! > I assumed such a project would already exist, Firewall I don't think, and the same for the filtering (I know only something like a plugin for squid, so for *nix platform). > but my searches on freshmeat, and google turned up empty. I would be > interested in starting my own project if necessary, so I have two > questions: > > 1) Does any one no of such a project? > > 2) Is this even reasonable in python and how might I get started? > (e.g. win32 COM?) win32COM for do what? You can do it in not so difficult manner: Take twisted and its proxy class, make some outline code (for filter the pages) and enjoy! (work also on win) > > Thanks much -- matthew > P.s. Don't forgot to share your code, when it'll work :) Bye, Michele -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list