Securing a "Suggest a link manager"

weeding from a list of "banned"

[henry0]

I am not in love with such tools; however it's a requirement so I will build mine!

Aside checking for well formed URLs

I would like as a first level of security for the client's site checking a "link suggestion" against a list of well-known spammers/porn/gambler etc...

I do not know where to start looking for (Not looking for free script or script snippets.)
Is there any org that makes available such a listing?

If not which kind of other checks will you perform?
Thanks

[jatar_k]

you could use some of the blacklists but I would bet this will slow things down

why not let people submit whatever they want, save them to a pending file and then have a croin that does some basic checking

I guarantee you will need some type of human review for submissions

[coopster]

I think so too. You could probably write a regular expression or even query a database table for problem words to filter a lot of the junk before you even had to go to review manually though. Search for "swear word filter" or "bad word filter" and you might turn up some work that somebody else has done and shared.

[henry0]

Thanks
Yes I was planning to set it up with a publish and un publish.

Looking for bad words etc.. Out of pre established lists sounds a good idea

I did not think that checking against a URL list would have considerable slowed down the process