#2220: Encode email "mailto:"; links ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Reporter: asuter | Type: New Feature Status: closed | Priority: Normal Milestone: FCKeditor 2.6.3 | Component: UI : Dialogs Version: FCKeditor 2.6 | Resolution: fixed Keywords: Confirmed HasPatch Review+ | ----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------
Comment(by surfacepatterns): This is a silly solution for a few reasons: 1.) This is a temporary, cheap obfuscation solution. It prevents unevolved bots from harvesting email addresses, but it doesn't stop bots from implementing trivial solutions to harvest email addresses encoded in this manner. If I can write 2-3 lines of code to parse the link, then a bot can be taught to do the same thing. 2.) Some browsers allow JavaScript to be disabled. The "mailto" links no longer work when JavaScript is disabled. 3.) Some clients that read HTML are not browsers! This "fix" assumes that the viewer is not an e-mail client, a documentation viewer, or anything else besides a browser that has JavaScript enabled. In my own developments using FCKEditor, I've allowed clients to edit the HTML content of email messages. The "mailto" links they attempt to add to their email messages don't work because they're encoded in this manner. I suggest you remove this "fix". -- Ticket URL: <http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/2220#comment:18> FCKeditor <http://www.fckeditor.net/> The text editor for Internet ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ FCKeditor-Trac mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fckeditor-trac
