Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote:
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.
[1] http://mikecherim.com/gbcms_xml/news_page.php?id=6
Why do you think it's safe to assume that bad bots won't send User-Agent
headers claiming to be IE, Firefox or any other browser they like? Even
if some bots do send different UA strings, this script relies on a false
assumption and, thus, provides a false sense of security.
--
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
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