Update to simple method for checking individual URLs

posted by John Roberts on November 15th, 2006 in PhishTank, API, Developers

A couple of weeks ago, Mike introduced a simple developer method for checking individual URLs for “phishiness” outside of the API. There have been edge cases where the submitted URL was too long, going beyond the legal limit of a GET request.

So, the method has been updated, and you should read the details. The original method will be supported, but it’s being deprecated in favor of a POST-based method.

We’ve had a request for a PhishTank bookmarklet… anyone out there want to write one? We’ll promote it. I think this POST method is probably a nice, lightweight way to implement it, but I’m not a developer.

 

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1. Amit Chakradeo

   Here are the bookmarklets as wished (tested only on Firefox 2.0)

   http://amit.chakradeo.net/2006/11/17/check-if-a-site-is-phishing-site/

   First one checks the current site the user is on.
   The second one prompts the user for a URL to check.

   — posted by Amit Chakradeo on November 17th, 2006 at 7:58 pm

2. Amit Chakradeo Inc.

   Check if a site is phishing site….

   Here is a bookmarklet (tested on firefox 2.0 only!)
   1. Drag this link to your bookmark. This checks if the site you are currently on is a phishing site.
   2. Drag this link to your bookmark. This prompts for a URL and checks if it is a phising site.
   Use…

   — posted by Amit Chakradeo Inc. on November 17th, 2006 at 8:58 pm

3. TBear

   Can anyone create a bookmarklet for Opera?

   ¤§ TBear §¤

   — posted by TBear on November 20th, 2006 at 4:34 am

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