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Monthly Archives October 2006

Fixing the geocoder gem.

I wanted to use the ruby geocoder library on the windows machine, but the installation of the gem failed due to some weird error. I checked the rubyforge project page to see if someone else had a similar problems and someone actually had, but the bug was open for a long time. I decided to [...]

Posted 16 October 2006 † amit § Programming § ruby ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

More about Phishtank API

Here is what will be good-to-have from phishtank.com API:

Good documentation about each interface e.g. how is callback_url used by auth.frob.request API ?
Description of all possible fields in return response (all possible XML elements and their possible values)
Some test URL’s and emails which will return known responses (i.e. phishy URL, good URL, not in the database [...]

Posted 13 October 2006 † amit § Internet § Programming § Security § ruby § software ‡ Comments (0) °

Phish Tank

http://www.phishtank.com is a new service which aims to help weed out phishing URLs and email addresses using wisdom of the crowds. Users can submit emails/URLs which they suspect of fraud and others can vote if they really are fraudulent or not. I think it is a great concept. There is a REST API using which [...]

Posted 11 October 2006 † amit § Internet § Programming § Security § ruby § software ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,