Re: Is there a jackal amongst the dogs?
Re: Is there a jackal amongst the dogs?
- Subject: Re: Is there a jackal amongst the dogs?
- From: Nathan Duran <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:34:50 -0700
- Thread-topic: Is there a jackal amongst the dogs?
> There is actually another way to turn robots away from an email address,
> it is by scrambling it in Java code.
Again, that is not effective at all. The HTML entities you shove in the
mailto link can be read by a script just as easily as they can by a web
browser. Contact forms written in server-side languages that do not output
your address anywhere in the markup in any form at all are the only way you
are ever going to keep it private. My own script goes another step further
to encrypt the field names in the form markup and to pass a hidden security
token that must match its md5'd twin tucked away in a session variable so as
to discourage smarter automata from submitting the form and spamming through
that. Very few robots store cookies, and even fewer can figure out what goes
where when the fields all have garbage names, so they can never make a valid
submission, and my clients and I get noticeably less spam.
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