Re: obfuscate email link in mailto, protect from spammers,possible?

On 17/9/04 6:09 am, mscir wrote:

(snip)
The address (shortened) looks like this:

a href="mailto:"
Click her</a

Can the spammers decode this? If so, any suggestons about how I can make
it more difficult for them?

Hi,

My apologies for dragging up an old thread, but you might be interested in
trying out a Javascript email scrambler I programmed a while back. I'd be
pretty surprised if EFGrabber can crack the results.

Here's a link: <http://freespace.virgin.net/phil.ronan/scramble.html>

Give it a try.

Phil

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Philip Ronan wrote:

My apologies for dragging up an old thread, but you might be interested in
trying out a Javascript email scrambler I programmed a while back. I'd be
pretty surprised if EFGrabber can crack the results.

Here's a link: <http://freespace.virgin.net/phil.ronan/scramble.html

Looks like it works, nice job. I tested your code on this page:

http://mscir.tripod.com/obfuscate.htm

Excuse the popups, cookies, and junk they insert into the page (it's a
free site and they live by advertising).

They messed up the page but it still works, the small blue dot at the
top left of the page is the anchor and will bring up the default email
client using 'mailto:' ... EFGrabber didn't find the email address.

Mike

On 3/10/04 12:12 am, Toby Inkster wrote:

Philip Ronan wrote:

http://freespace.virgin.net/phil.ronan/scramble.html

The generated Javascript is invalid HTML.

Replace this line:
document.write('</A>');

With this:
document.write('<' + '/A>');

Thanks, Tony!

Now fixed.

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On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 00:12:58 +0100, Toby Inkster
<usenet200409 (AT) tobyinkster (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

[snip]

Replace this line:
document.write('</A>');

With this:
document.write('<' + '/A>');

The alternative is

document.write('<\/A>');

which is faster.

Mike

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