Security from guest email harvesting

[kiwibrit]

Script URL: http://www.castlehillclub.com/gbook/gbook.php
Version of script: 1.3.2
Version of PHP: Not known
Hosting company: Supanames
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Delighted with everything I see about this guestbook. Still tidying up the appearance before I open it up from the main site, but I am sure it will be fine. One thing though, just how secure is the email address of guests from email harvesters? Selecting the email address in Firefox results in the email address being shown clearly - so can't harvesters therefore pick it up, too?

I am learning frantically about php - it may be a well known answer to most - but I'd be grateful for a rosy glow of assurance.

[Klemen]

Hi,

E-mail address does show ok in the browser (has to or it wouldn't be working), but if you check the source code you will see the important chars are encoded. So instead of

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mailto:none@none.net

you get:

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mailto& #58;none& #64;none& #46;net

The was majority of known e-mail harvesters are simple programs and they will either not recognize this as an e-mail address or take the code from source none& #64;none& #46;net and you wouldn't receive mail sent to that address.

Regards

[kiwibrit]

Gosh, that was quick. Thank you very much indeed, Klemen.

[kiwibrit]

The guest book is up and running, the chairman is a very happy bunny. Many thanks!