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Security from guest email harvesting

Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:59 pm
by 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.

Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:11 pm
by 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

Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:20 pm
by kiwibrit
Gosh, that was quick. Thank you very much indeed, Klemen.

THanks!

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 12:23 pm
by kiwibrit
The guest book is up and running, the chairman is a very happy bunny. Many thanks!