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| Proxy Name | Willow |
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| Language and version | python version: 2.2.2 |
| HTTP version | 1.1 |
| HTTPS Connect | yes |
| Windows NTLM support | yes |
| Last updated YYYY-MM-DD | 2003-06-06 |
| Platform | Linux only. From the product page: "There is no windows suport at this time. It is being worked on and an should be release shortly." |
| Author | Digital Lumber |
| Home page | http://www.digitallumber.com/willow |
| Primary features | Bayesian content filtering, browser-based interface, caching, Windows NTLM authentication |
| Features |
From the product page Willow is a content-filtering proxy server. It bears one similarity to the many other pieces of software available for web filtering in that it is designed to filter web content. That, however, is where the similarities end. The differences between Willow and other solutions are significant, and these differences make Willow the first really usable internet filter. In addition to being the first web filter to really work, Willow was also designed to make life easy on network administrators. To this end Willow supports the following:
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| License | LGPL |
| Design Architecture | Asyncore |
| Notes | Willow is interesting because it uses Bayesian filtering to recognise the bad content that you don't want to see. Which means that it has a Bayesian network that has to be trained on good and bad content in order to be able to tell the difference between them. Which means that you need some bad content in order to train it: a problem which the authors have solved by including a corpus of pornography in the download! |