Masking email = 404

<stretching the newsgroup?>I have a mailto currently on my site
disguised with hexadecimals - suddenly I am getting a lot of 404 listed
at mai& - any ideas? I have done a bunch of searches on google and can
not find anything that even remotely touches on this problem. Actually
quite the reverse IMHO, several pages recommending using this technique.

BTW, I am in the process of testing a php form in place of the mailto
although it seems to me just as easy to harvest my address from there as
from my html page. I ran my php page through the validator - showed as
valid. I presume that means the validator sees the result of the code
not the code, therefore the email address is able to be seen in the php
form, not?

To any who feel that this stretching the newsgroup too far, sorry about
that - it is through ignorance not arrogance. ;-)
TIA
TK
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Terry wrote:

BTW, I am in the process of testing a php form in place of the mailto
although it seems to me just as easy to harvest my address from there as
from my html page.

If your address does not show in the resultant HTML, no harvesting can
be done. Put the address in the PHP code for the TO: field. No bot can
read that.

I ran my php page through the validator - showed as
valid. I presume that means the validator sees the result of the code
not the code, therefore the email address is able to be seen in the php
form, not?

The validator sees only the HTML generated by your script, and cannot
read the script itself. Neither can any harvesting bot.

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Duende wrote:

While sitting in a puddle Beauregard T. Shagnasty scribbled in the
mud:

The validator sees only the HTML generated by your script, and
cannot read the script itself.

don't be silly.
http://wipkip.us/formmail.phps

Howdja do that? <g> There has to be a real file there with the
extension .phps, right? None of my PHP pages show in the browser if I
add an "s" to the .php file name...


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Duende wrote:

While sitting in a puddle Beauregard T. Shagnasty scribbled in the mud:

Duende wrote:
While sitting in a puddle Beauregard T. Shagnasty scribbled in the
mud:

The validator sees only the HTML generated by your script, and
cannot read the script itself.

don't be silly.
http://wipkip.us/formmail.phps

Howdja do that? <g> There has to be a real file there with the
extension .phps, right?

Right, if your server is setup to let you. wipkip.biz is hosted at
1and1.com and you can't do it there but most hosts let you.

I'll be darned; I was not aware of that capability.

I found this directive:

<IfModule mod_mime.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4
AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
</IfModule>

If you wanted this, you might try

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

in your .htaccess file. Unless you're Win hosted.

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Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Terry wrote:

BTW, I am in the process of testing a php form in place of the mailto
although it seems to me just as easy to harvest my address from there
as from my html page.


If your address does not show in the resultant HTML, no harvesting can
be done. Put the address in the PHP code for the TO: field. No bot can
read that.
blush>Thanks!</blush> Sometimes it is hard (for me) to tell the forest

from the trees.
TK

Duende wrote:

While sitting in a puddle Terry scribbled in the mud:


blush>Thanks!</blush> Sometimes it is hard (for me) to tell the forest
from the trees.


When you are in a real forest you can't see the sky. If you can see the sky
than you are only amongst some trees.

Gosh now your telling me I can not tell the trees from a forest? Not

only not learning very fast - I'm going backwards?

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