Link Anonymizer

Link Anonymizer v1.02a & 1.03, 1.04, 1.05.3 & 1.10

Author: MarcoH64

vBulletin Version: 3.5.1

Warning: Version 1.02 might create double anonym links if you edit a post multiple times. Version 1.03 has been reported not to be working for some people. Please read posts in this thread if you plan on using this hack, until i had time to look into this.
v1.05 and higher should be the best versions
1.10 Is an updated version of 1.05.3 and is considered a stable release. Only version 1.10 will be supported now.

Description:
This Product will add a self configurable anonymising link to all external urls in posts.

Installation:
Install the XML-file as Product.

Configuration:
vBulletin Options->Link Anonymizer :

• Local Addresses

Local addresses are not anonymized. If you leave this option blank, the value for vBulletin Options Cookie Domain will be used. Do not use a http:// prefix.

If you start the name with a dot (.mydomain.com) all server addresses ending with this will be considered local. If you want to add mulitple domain/servernames, seperate them by a single space.

• Anonymizer (default: http://anonym.to/?)

Link to a anonymizer function. Use preceding / if needed. Other Usable Anonymizers:

http://anon.free.anonymizer.com/ 
 
http://anonym.webgurus.de (Thanks Wachtmeister)

• Allways anonymize Unparseble URLs (* New in version 1.10)

Please click install if you are using this hack.

Donations are always welcomed at Paypal: marcoh64 AT gmail.com

Change log:
6-9-2005 v1.01
- 1 setting was missing from product file due to wrong Product. Fixed
7-9-2005 v1.02
- Under some conditions a newly posted post with only a link would not get anonymized. Fixed.
7-9-2005 v1.02a
- Fixed bug when handling generic local domain (starting with a dot '.'') Sorry for the many updates.
8-10-2005 v1.03
- Totally new way of doing this, on view instead of on write.
- Solved doubling the anonym link on edit
10-10-2005 v1.04
- Link not didn't get anonym prefix if URL= didn't contain http://. Solved.
- Added truncate table post_parsed to install routine.
1-11-2005 v1.05
- Standard Editor fixed
- Simple URL's in standard editor fixed.
- Default anonymizer changed
2-11-2005 v1.05.1
- Fixed bug where only the last url to the same domain in a single post was anonymised.
9-11-2005 v1.05.2
- Added option to ignore certain protocols in the vBulletin Options (ie. ignore https, ftp, ....).
- Attempt to fix reported bug where an inline fragment (#fragment) would also be anonymized.
10.11.2005 v1.05.3
- Another attempt to ignore fragments
25.11.2005 v1.10
- Fixed a bug where some urls could lead to a parse error. Example of an url leading to this error:

http://mymail@mymail.com:password@www.mydomain.com

- Added new parameter to vB Options: Always anonimyze unparseble URLs
- This is considered a very stable release. No bug reports pending
- All previous versions are from now on unsupported

Upgrades:
If you are running an older version and want to upgrade, simply do an overwrite install.

It is possible that there are still double links in the database from old versions. If you wish to remove these, run the following queries (make backup first!!):

SQL Query: (how to run queries)
update post set pagetext = replace(pagetext, "http://YOURANONIMIZERLINK/","");

[Crazy Serb]

All right, a problem.

When I quote a post with a url in it, it also adds the anonym.de prefix to the already prefixed url in the original post, thus repeating it twice in the quotes.

Or is that just me?

[BKD]

installed and so far perfect


being as ignorant as i am... how would one institute this into shout box? say vBShout 2.0

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=93097

[mktrilogy]

works like a charm thanks

[SecTa]

Found small bug: links in sugnatures are not anonimyzed. Could that be fixed?

[Nathan2006]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

If you are just install, i suggest you use 1.10.

The older versions are just there for reference and are not supported anymore.

Thanks Marco

I did update

Originally Posted by SecTa

Found small bug: links in sugnatures are not anonimyzed. Could that be fixed?

I would also like to see this in signatures

[dan35]

Nevermind!

[Paul Janowitz]

I have a problem with this product. I have my own anonymizer on the same domain as my board in the directory /anon/ . Unfortunately when I change the anonymizer service to my script http://mydomain.com/anon/? all links are parsed to http://mydomain.com/anon/ and the real link is cut off. Can you please help me with this issue?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by SecTa

Found small bug: links in sugnatures are not anonimyzed. Could that be fixed?

Signatures have never been the aim of this modification. I currently don't have time to add this, but maybe another member is willing to add that part.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by Paul Janowitz

I have a problem with this product. I have my own anonymizer on the same domain as my board in the directory /anon/ . Unfortunately when I change the anonymizer service to my script http://mydomain.com/anon/? all links are parsed to http://mydomain.com/anon/ and the real link is cut off. Can you please help me with this issue?

I have never tried to use it in combination with a local anonymizer. It should work like any other though, all that is done, is a string added in front of the real url.

My guess is that this maybe get corrupted by rewrite rules on your server. You could try to create a special (sub-)domain (pointing to the same server), maybe that would help.

Anyway to give a better educated guess, i would need to see real link, if you want you can sent them to me by pm.

[mr3dblond]

Hi folks,

I added signature support to this mod and a SEO relevant parameter rel="nofollow" to all external links.

I also changed the version number to 1.11, I hope that is ok.

Ciao...