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June 22nd, 2009, 12:26 PM
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Protect clients email address
I have seen several ideas to do this but the ideas are somewhat old (2006?) and was wondering if there is an up-to-date method of protecting the mailto: address in the HTML. I suspect javascript is no good if the visitor has js turned off in the browser.
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June 23rd, 2009, 05:20 AM
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If the link needs to be a mailto link, then theres no real way to do it using just HTML unfortunately. You can obfuscate and hard-code the email address, but that isn't going to stop a bot/spider whatever from reading it - obfuscation is only really good for hiding from humans.
Some people have suggested replacing the @ symbol with @ but again, it's just basically trying to trick whoever into thinking that it's not an email address.. however, the thing to remember is that if a href attribute starts with "mailto:" an email address is going to follow - however it's encoded. One thing you can do, is handle the onclick of the link (using JavaScript) and redirect the page to the mailto there - this way you can concatinate a couple of strings to create the email address. This means that bots are less likely to be able to work out whats going on. Code:
<script type="text/javascript">
function sendIt() {
var at = "@";
var user = "user";
var domain = "domain";
var protocol = "mailto";
window.location.href = protocol + ":" + user + at + domain;
}
</script>
It's not great, but it's a start
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June 24th, 2009, 02:40 AM
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There are various ways, but this works...
Code:
<p><a href="javascript:sendIt()">Mail me</a></p>
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June 24th, 2009, 03:17 AM
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Actually, before I try this, I have just tested mailto: link in Safari and Firefox and Safari posts a message saying Vista can't do it and Firefox just ignores the click. But when I use my other machine IE7 creates an email form from my webmail OK. Anyone know what the solution is for this?
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