Add-On Releases - Link Anonymizer and Censor

Link Anonymizer and Censor 1.20

Author: MarcoH64

vBulletin Version: 3.6.x

Description:
This Product will add a self configurable anonymising link to all external urls in posts. Optionally it will also give you a Whitelist or Blacklist option for URL's. With this option you can censor URL's replacing those on the Blacklist (or not on the Whitelist) with a predefined text and/or link.

Installation:
Install the XML-file as Product.
Upload the contents of the 'upload' folder to your forumhome directory.

Configuration:
vBulletin Options->Link Anonymizer and Censor:

• 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
• Other options are explained in the vBulletin Options

Alternative local redirect script that can be used with this modification can be found at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....3&postcount=64

Please click install if you are using this hack.

Change log:
vBulletin 3.5 versions
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

vBulletin 3.6 versions:

30.03.2007 v1.20:
- Upgraded for vB 3.6
- Links can now optionally be anonymized in: Posts, Private Messages and/or Signatures
- Added White- and/or Blacklist Censor
Upgrades:
If you are running an older version and want to upgrade, simply do an overwrite install.

[Hornstar]

I will give this a go, i think this is useful, but still a little confused. thanks.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

If there are so many confused about this, then please say what you are confused about so i can update my description.

[KEKforce]

Great Hack. But the update feature in Admincp (Manage Products)gives the following error.

dutch: Hoi Marco De update feature onder products werkt niet( Manage products). Ligt dan aan mij?

Version check failed. No version number was found at this location. The URL for the version check may be incorrect, or the server may be experiencing problems. Please try again later.

[mktrilogy]

i cant seem to make Local addresses are not anonymized.

my site is .org will this be an issue?

.mysite.org is the entry but it will not localize it.


Now i notice that it has issues with 2 entries that need/need not to be redirected.

boypancit seems to have multiple personalities using  

 genggeng and  boypancit  sharing the same computer. No soup for you! and you! and you!

it works on the second entry but wont anonymize the first

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Hmmm i will check if i entered the correct URL.

That is the "problem" with the system. You have finished the modification and are read y to release it. Now you must first make a thread so you will get the threadid (without uploading the modification), quickly go back to your development board, add the URL's to the product, export the product, quickly zip al up and update the thread with the zip-file. Easy to make an error in that.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

It is a typo in the threadid, should have been https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/misc.php?...rsion&t=143615
instead of https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/misc.php?...rsion&t=143616

You can update it in your Product Manager if you want, will update the zip-file in a minute.

Edit: Zip-file updated. This is not an update to the code, so there is no reason to update your board. If needed you can also manualy change the Version Check URL.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by mktrilogy

i cant seem to make Local addresses are not anonymized.

my site is .org will this be an issue?

.mysite.org is the entry but it will not localize it.


Now i notice that it has issues with 2 entries that need/need not to be redirected.

boypancit seems to have multiple personalities using  
 
genggeng and boypancit  sharing the same computer. No soup for you! and you! and you!

it works on the second entry but wont anonymize the first

If your Forum URL is set correctly in your vBulletin Options, then you will not need to set a local address in most cases.

In your example you say that your local address is ".mysite.org" but the links are for "my.org". Also try setting the local address without a leading ".".

PS The routines that define the local address have not been changed since the 3.5 version, so it would be strange if you discovered a new bug in it.

If you can not make it work, then please PM me direct links to the post that have problems, together with ACP access for your board.

[KEKforce]

Updated and works 100% :up:

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Would really like some feedback from someone using the new Censor options, as i have only tested them on my localhost testboard.

as for Local Address, could it be possible in the near future to have it filter more than one ?!

reason: i have two domains pointing on the forum... english and french domains for the same site... i'd like these two domains to be filtered, not only the one in the settings... would it be possible, or i have to tweak it myself ?!
(because i know that a lot of people are pointing more than one domain on their forums...)