No worries Mike, keep at it, if it's a good solution for you, then it's a good solution =8-)Personally I use captcha validated forms to send email internally.At least filtering on user agent is another level, and you might end up expanding on that.
Bots will just make http requests and parse the
James Laugesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Mike, I could see the link correctly and sent you the email.
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
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
Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...] 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,
I suggest it wouldn't be too much of a stretch for a spambot to do a
bit of regex matching... I'll put it in php because that's what I
know.
First you'd preprocess the page using a javascript processor. This is
an effort but quite possible - perhaps steal some firefox code to do
this, which
