Export Database
The contents of the PhormCheck database are freely available to you in a number of formats.
In each case, you can choose whether to include some of the more controversial entries in your results. Read the Politics page for more information about what's the right choice for your needs.
If you want finer control than the options listed below, you can tweak the 'exclude' portion of the query URL. This takes a comma-separated list of IspType values which should be excluded from the results - see the conservative URLs for an example. The default if no exclusion list is specified is to exclude 'associated' and 'subsidiary' entries (i.e. the 'educator' version), which should always be a safe choice.
Apache HTAccess directives
To export a set of Apache .htaccess directives allowing you to deny service to suspicious IP addresses, use the link below.
- Apache .htaccess fragment - conservative version
- Apache .htaccess fragment - educator version
- Apache .htaccess fragment - full version
This data is exported in a format that can be directly used with the Apache webserver to cause visitors from spyware-related IP addresses to either be flatly denied access to your site, or to be redirected to a suitable information page.
You set this up by adding the code to a .htaccess file stored in your webserver's document directory. These files cause Apache to control access to all documents in the containing directory, and all child directories, according to the rules specified in the file.
For more information on .htaccess files in general, click here. For an excellent guide to using .htaccess files to combat Phorm's spyware, see the excellent page on dephormation.org.uk.
PHP Array
To export a set of CIDR address ranges in PHP format allowing you to deny service to Phormed IP addresses, use the link below.
For some sample code to make use of this data, you can view dephormation.org's sample code to do a redirect for Phorm-related clients, or look at the source code of the PhormCheck database's PHP client library, which (in caching mode) works by downloading and interpreting this exported data.
Textual List
To see a simple human-readable table of the database data, use one of the links below.