Services-oriented URL filtering and verification

  • Authors:
  • Aili Wang;Chao Wang;Xi Li;Xuehai Zhou;Nadia Nedjah

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Software Engineering, Suzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Science and Technology of China, Ren'ai Road No.166, Suzhou 215123, China;School of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, P.O. Box 4, Hefei 230027, China;School of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, P.O. Box 4, Hefei 230027, China;School of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, P.O. Box 4, Hefei 230027, China;Department of Electronics Engineering and Telecommunications, Center for Technology and Science, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, Room F-5145, Maracan ...

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Teenagers' online safety problem has become increasingly important. To tackle this problem, this paper proposes a services-oriented URL filtering and verification mechanism. A services-oriented browser architecture prototype has been implemented, named SOBA. SOBA is the first in literature that introduces SOA concepts into the web browser design paradigm. It contains a server cluster, which employs URL filter functions to verify the URL access, while whitelists and validation results are wrapped as services. Meanwhile, a customised SOBA client is in charge of data conversion and website navigation while verification workloads are deployed on the server side. Administrators can manage URL databases through back stage websites. A prototyping software browser of SOBA demonstrates that SOA concepts can greatly improve the online safety with high flexibility and modularity.