Damien McGivern

Stop Forum Spam wrapper and ASP.Net HttpModule

Stop Forum Spam has an API that allows you to query their spam list using a REST call. I've written a simple wrapper for their API and created a HttpModule that checks the clients IP against the spam list. Making http requests is very expensive so the result of the IP check is cached for 24 hours making the performance impact to the end user only slightly noticeable on the first request.

The download includes the http module dll, test website and a couple of unit tests.

When I get a bit more time I'll look into improving the performance, perhaps async using requests. Now off to finish my online xmas shopping.

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WCF REST Starter Kit Screencasts

Over on endpointTV Aaron Skonnard from PluralSight has a series of screencasts introducing some of the time saving features of the WCF REST Starter Kit which is available to download from codeplex.

Found via Sundar Narasiman's Blog

(Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008) Service Pack 2 Customer Preview Program (CPP)

Mike Nash has announced that the betas for both Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 will be released to the public shortly, however if you have a TechNet or MSDN subscription then you can access them now.