Hi,

Does anyone know how to redirect the url path typed in the web browser to a local file path that we specified?
e.g: when typed www.google.com, it redirects to C:\ProgramFiles\Application\Block.html.
I'm currently working on creating an application that should restrict the students from surfing internet. Either a certain url to be block or all.

Any idea how to do it in C#?
Thanks in advance.

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Hi,
I didnt got u'r question correctly. What I understood from it is U want to redirect path to a file on local machine i.e. server on which the application is running.
For this U need to set the navigation Url path. Also U will have to map the virtual and physical paths of the file.

This sounds like you want to build an HTTP filtering application. You would need to build something that monitored the IP traffic that the computer generates and change the response when you see a request that you want to filter. There are web appliances and software that already do that sort of thing that would be far easier to implement than building something (I would think).

The company I work for uses WebSense (http://www.websense.com) to monitor/restrict our web activity. I don't know any others off the top of my head.

-Peter

So sorry, it did not emphasize more.

It's not on web application. Not webserver redirection or such.
What i want is to create a windows application that would restrict or block student from surfing internet on some or all websites.
If the student visiting a url that similiar with our list of restricted website, this program should know it and redirect it to our own html page, in which maybe showing that 'the page you are viewing is currently blocked' or something like that.

This idea is coming from two sample applications that used this approach in order to block student from viewing restricted websites. i just don't know how they did it.

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Emm.. about purchasing other software, it might not be possible. My management would like to built it in-house for the sake of further service if needed, such as custom enhancement and debugging.

Btw, this is only one of sub-feature inside one of the functions on my entire project.

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something like here:

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems...56&msg=1873556

But i don't understand C++
Anyone can help?

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I dont know, but why not just setup a SQUID proxy? This is what we use at my agency and it works fairly well. (It runs on linux and is Free as in Beer)

That would be my suggestion, else you are getting into some heavy development.

By the by, you could try using this tool: http://code2code.net/ to convert the c++ to c#

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Im no expert in this area but it might be worth looking into the inbuild dns on your network.
Im not sure how to access it, but it seems like you are trying to redirect a request for one web site to another site or page and that is what dns does.
We do this manually when we want to use the external web site address from inside the network.

Does anyone know how to access this data, it seems like a management utility for the dsn is what you want.


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Hmmm, I think I was on the wrong track.


Is this correct?
You are building a Windows App that has Web browsing ablities but you want to restrict the access.

I would load a list of banned sites into a collecion on the app, preferably from a central source, not C:\..., and then test every navigation that it is not in the list, if it is, redirect.

Hope this is some help.
Rod

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Dear dparsons and rodmcleay, thanks for your advice.

However, i have a case that is quite complicated:
1st: we are building commercial product and not providing network admin service
2nd: our client are somehow government sector that have a tight policy especially on their server.

the sample product that i found: www.ashkon.com/webblock.html
i need that block website function they have.

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