My email body was not poopulated correctly (GMail notifier mailto handler) but I put the details in manually.
I'm interested in discussion on this topic... how did you determine this was the best approach?
Bots can always parse [at] and [dot] (assuming you didn't intend to replace with an image) and report fake user agents.
J
On 09/06/06, Mike at Green-Beast.com
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello group,
I have written a PHP script which I hope will allow a person to post an
email address on a site without worrying about it being found and exploited
by bad'bots. Please know I am one who is in favor of providing a contact
form, but something like this can still be useful, as explained in the
experiment's write-up [1].
Testing is needed! I need people and their varied UAs to go to the
experiment's demo page [2] and, assuming you *see* the active email link,
use it to send me an email. There is body content in the email which will
give me the data I need to confirm the testing so you need to do nothing
else, just click and send (unless data doesn't show UA). More importantly,
if you don't see the email link, please let me know and tell me what you're
using to access the page.
I have tested on various old and new versions of Internet Explorer (for Mac
and Windows), Safari, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, AOL, Flock, Konqueror,
Camino, Mozilla, and the Lynx text browser. It worked just fine (and it
should work on portable devices and Web TV as well, (not even sure if they
have an email client, though). I also looked through the eyes of several
spiders by way of WannaBrowser [3], and it was fine there, the output I
hoped to see. Now a real world test is needed.
I would also like comments as it pertains to various screen readers , Jaws,
etc. Does it work with those? Should it? Is there an email client available
to those users. I want to assume yes but I'm not positive of this.
If I actually pulled this off, a greater number of legitimate users will
have link access than would be possible with a _javascript_ technique [4].
This might be a good thing.
[1] http://mikecherim.com/gbcms_xml/news_page.php?id=6
[2] http://mikecherim.com/experiments/php_hide_email.php
[3] http://www.wannabrowser.com/
[4] http://green-beast.com/blog/?p=38
In advance, thank you.
Sincerely,
Mike Cherim
http://green-beast.com/
http://accessites.org/
http://graybit.com/
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