Returns IDN restriction level of a string.
Project description
# IDNCheck
IDNcheck performs safety checks on international domain names. This might be useful if you want to see how likely a given domain is to be used for nefarious purposes such as phishing. It returns the unicode restriction level passed by a string, as described in Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms (see References).
Note: On first run, it will automatically download a file if it doesn’t exist: http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Scripts.txt
## How to use
Typical usage might look something like this:
python >>> import idncheck >>> idncheck.idncheck(“hello”) 1 >>> idncheck.idncheck(“φilosoφia”) 42 >>> idncheck.idncheck(“φilosoφia”, 3) # FIXME True >>> idncheck.idncheck(“paypal”) 1 >>> idncheck.idncheck(“paypаl”) 4 >>> idncheck.idncheck(“раура1”) 4
or
#!/usr/bin/env python
import idncheck
- idncheck.idencheck(“φilosoφia”, 3): # FIXME
print(“I see what you’re doing there”)
## References
This tool serves as an implementation of the Restriction-Level detection described in Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms:
Additional use cases and details are available in these blog posts:
[Gmail post](http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/08/protecting-gmail-in-global-world.html)
[Another Google post](http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/08/protecting-gmail-in-global-world.html)
## TODO
Create a web service on a Gandi Python Simple Hosting instance