Disallow pseudo linking Sythe urls

[MohtasaUnique]

Kids are being dumb and falling for pseudo Sythe links. You should find a way to have the censorship function recognize when a URL="link" tag is used with a Sythe.org URL and either censor it, or automatically remove the bbcode.

So if it says

[url="www.fakesythe.org"]www.sythe.org[/url]

Then it's just replaced with

[url]www.sythe.org[/url]

An maybe a message saying "this user has attempted to hyperlink a Sythe.org URL"

 

I can't see why this wouldn't be beneficial.

Safety is top priority for me. Support.

 

[artshow]

I support as well. This has nothing but benefits.

 

[MohtasaUnique]

Frankly, I'm surprised this hasn't already been addressed, phishing was (and obviously still is [see pulse]) a huge problem way back when before jagex implemented all their anti-phishing measures.

 

[Kelowna]

Although I'm beating a dead horse when I say this I support.

 

[Sovietunion]

Support since most people probably don't even know about this.

 

[Noobmage]

Yeah. Frankly, I think this should be extended to any links that have text beginning with "http://": if they don't have matching destination URL, then the hyperlink part should be removed and only the text should remain.

Example:

[url=http://www.fakesite.com/]http://www.legitsite.com/[/url]

to

http://www.legitsite.com/

 

[Ziggily]

I support this. It is a shame that we have to worry about this :/

 

I support this also. Great idea for more security here

 

[Violent]

This is why i always look at the bottom left side of my screen so i know if its legit, but yeah would be nice for this to be fixed

 

[n4n0]

Not sure how this would be done, whether there's a vbul plugin already or whether it would have to be custom coded, but I'll definitely try and get Matt's and Richard's attention directed towards this page and see if either of them could get something going. Definitely a good suggestion.

 

[MohtasaUnique]

Only knowing java myeslf, the easiest solution I can think of is a bit of script activated when a user attempts to use URL and parameter tags-- like that, but not when it's just [url] because that would drastically cut down on the times this script would activate.

It would then tokenize the following tagged line until [ /url] is read, and divide it into red and blue:
[ url = "first link"]second link[ /url]
And if red doesn't equal blue, remove everything but the red link

...
Or rather, if the red domain name doesn't equal the blue domain name, which would require more tokenization between the dots in the URL, so yeah it'd be complicated for sure... but nothing outside matthew's skill level I'm sure.

 

Good suggestion. I can probably do a regex on the link text to see if it matches a hyperlink. I'll have a go at putting it in tomorrow.

 

[MohtasaUnique]

How's it coming along? c:

 

[Smaug]

^^^^ support perfect idea. Gonna save a lot of people these days.

 

How's it coming along? c:

Let's find out:

Noparse version:

[URL="http://sythe.org"]http://runescape.com[/URL]
[URL="http://sythe.org"]runescape.com[/URL]
[URL="http://sythe.org"]www.runescape.com[/URL]
[URL="http://sythe.org"]go to runescape.com[/URL]
[URL="http://sythe.org"] runescape.com[/URL]
[URL="http://sythe.org"]runescape blah blah[/URL]


Parse version:
http://runescape.com
runescape.com
www.runescape.com
go to runescape.com
runescape.com
runescape blah blah

Seems to work fine. See if you can find any ways to trip it up.

 

[MohtasaUnique]

sythe.org

[url="fakesythe.org"]sythe.org[/url]

 

[MohtasaUnique]

Well played, Monsieur Richardeau


EDIT: curious if it's just for sythe links or for any link
myspace.com

anythingwith.com


Good, it only replaces it if both are actual correctly-formatted URLs

I also like that you can still see the tag as it was written when you quote/edit the messages. Good foresight in preserving phishing attempt evidence

 

Well played, Monsieur Richardeau


EDIT: curious if it's just for sythe links or for any link
myspace.com

anythingwith.com


Good, it only replaces it if both are actual correctly-formatted URLs

I also like that you can still see the tag as it was written when you quote/edit the messages. Good foresight in preserving phishing attempt evidence

For reference you would never use a parser for this sort of task. A one-line regular expression works fine and is easy to update/modify for edge cases. I'll pm you the code since you're interested.

 

Think it might have messed with images hyperlinked with urls, take a look at my signature.