How to display user defined message on the browser after blocking website using hosts

Question

I am using the hosts file for blocking websites, and when we try to open that website the browser shows some default message, but I need to display my own message.

Is there any possibility for displaying a user-defined message?

Answer 1

Run a web-server on your local machine on the usual port (80) and set a custom error page

In your hosts file use 127.0.0.1 as the address for blocked domains

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Update:

If you have Perl installed, you can use something like this (start it from a command prompt)

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTTP::Daemon;
use HTTP::Status;

my $d = HTTP::Daemon->new(LocalPort => 80);

while (my $c = $d->accept) {
    while (my $r = $c->get_request) {
       $c->send_file_response("./blocked.html");
    }
    $c->close;
    undef($c);
}

Other scripting languages are available. Batteries not included.