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What approach should I take to develop software to block traffic at the desktop level (windows) to sites based on their domain name.
Messing with a host file was easy, but the browser seems to have too long of a delay before it recognizes changes in the host file.
My ideal solution would be a simple ruby script to disable sites during work hours and then re-enable them later.
Mouslehole is proxy written in ruby. You can easily customize it to block pages, and even rewrite page contents while surfing. You run the proxy on your own machine and configure your favorite browser to not connect directly to the internet. More info about that at http://github.com/whymirror/mousehole/tree.