SOBA: A Services-Oriented Browser Architecture with Distributed URL-Filtering Mechanisms for Teenagers

Abstract

In order to protect the teenagers in online cyberspace, this paper presents SOBA, novel services-oriented internet browser architecture with distributed filtering mechanisms. SOBA is the first literature that introduces SOA concepts into the web browser design paradigm. It contains a server cluster, which employs URL filter functions to verify the URL access, while whitelists and validation results are wrapped as services. Mean-while, a customized SOBA client is in charge of data conversion and web site navigation while verification workloads are de-ployed on the server side. Administrators can manage URL data-bases through back stage websites. A prototyping software browser of SOBA demonstrates that SOA concepts can greatly improve the safety for teenage users with high flexibility and modularity.