Not sure if this is the right "room" for this...<br />
A LONG time ago I read in a magazine (thought it was web techniques, but i think it was before it was born) wherein the author either had a site (that converted an email) or gave the code for how to hide the email addresses from a robot. the email address had to be a "click here" kind of link (rather than displaying the actual address) and the HTML code was filled with extra characters so if a robot tried to use it (as is), it wouldn't work. I don't think it was js but I can't remember where I found that or how it worked.<br />
Help please! We want to post an email address for our customers to use (for support) but do not want robots to spam it.<br />
TIA,<br />
Shelly<!--content-->Hi Shelly,<br />
<br />
I remember something like that but couldn't tell you who,what,when,where,how.
<br />
<br />
but I would bet you would be better off if you made a contact page that would send the email using serverside language and have your email a variable in that code. I don't think the robots can get that, especially if you block off the cgi-bin or some other folder from the robots.<!--content-->This may help? A similar discussion...<br />
<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.sitepointforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49254">http://www.sitepointforums.com/showthre ... adid=49254</a><!-- m --><!--content-->Hi Shelly, <br />
<br />
This JS should do it:<br />
<br />
<br />
<script language="Javascript"> <br />
<!-- <br />
//this simple script by a1javascripts.com <br />
//please leave credit and instructions intact <br />
//simply enter your emailname and emailserver below <br />
//and copy and paste to entire script where you want it to show. <br />
emailname = "webmaster" <br />
emailserver = "your-domain.com" <br />
//change the font face, color and size below <br />
document.write("<font face='Arial,Helvetica' size=-1>"); <br />
document.write("<a href='http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/mailto:" + emailname + "@" + emailserver + "'>"); <br />
document.write("<font color='ff0000'>"); <br />
document.write(emailname + "@" + emailserver); <br />
document.write("</a>"); <br />
document.write("</font>"); <br />
//--> <br />
</script> <br />
<br />
<br />
It's a little more foolproof then the other method mentioned.<!--content-->THANK YOU HTMLITE!!<br />
<br />
Here it is for those of you looking for it (this is from the linked post above)<br />
<br />
<br />
%40 is the URL encoded version of the @ symbol.... so: <br />
<!-- e --><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><!-- e --> is the same as <br />
myname%40mydomain.com<br />
<br />
<br />
And it works too!<br />
(thank you jason too - i found that js earlier - but am happy to find the html above!)<!--content-->Can't the robots simply be programmed to look for %40 instead of @? Do they look at the resultant page you and me see, or do they look at the HTML code that makes up webpages?<br />
<br />
Is there not some kind of META tag ... oh, no, wait, the entire problem with spam "harvesters", is that they want your email no matter what. So even if I was right about said tag, such people would ignore it.. Sigh.
<!--content-->I discovered a better way & here's a page you can go to encode your email addresses:<br />
<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.moonlightweb.com/emailencoder.html">http://www.moonlightweb.com/emailencoder.html</a><!-- m --><br />
<br />
as far as i know - the spam-bots aren't sophistcated enough (yet) to translate these!<!--content-->You can protect them by writing them like this: <br />
<br />
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <br />
<!-- <br />
var addr1 = "mailto:" <br />
var addr2 = "KWJams" <br />
var addr3 = "@" <br />
var addr4 = "truewest.net" <br />
document.write('<A HREF=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"' + addr1 + addr2 + addr3 + addr4 + '">') <br />
document.write('<img SRC=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"email.gif"></A></TD></TR></TABLE>!</A>') <br />
//--> <br />
</SCRIPT> <br />
<br />
Instead of like this: <!-- e --><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><!-- e --> (not real addy)<!--content-->i've attached a small perl script that you can use to solve your problem. It's pretty much the same thing as the Java script that people posted, but instead it's perl (some people just prefer to not use javascripting)<!--content-->
A LONG time ago I read in a magazine (thought it was web techniques, but i think it was before it was born) wherein the author either had a site (that converted an email) or gave the code for how to hide the email addresses from a robot. the email address had to be a "click here" kind of link (rather than displaying the actual address) and the HTML code was filled with extra characters so if a robot tried to use it (as is), it wouldn't work. I don't think it was js but I can't remember where I found that or how it worked.<br />
Help please! We want to post an email address for our customers to use (for support) but do not want robots to spam it.<br />
TIA,<br />
Shelly<!--content-->Hi Shelly,<br />
<br />
I remember something like that but couldn't tell you who,what,when,where,how.
<br /><br />
but I would bet you would be better off if you made a contact page that would send the email using serverside language and have your email a variable in that code. I don't think the robots can get that, especially if you block off the cgi-bin or some other folder from the robots.<!--content-->This may help? A similar discussion...<br />
<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.sitepointforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49254">http://www.sitepointforums.com/showthre ... adid=49254</a><!-- m --><!--content-->Hi Shelly, <br />
<br />
This JS should do it:<br />
<br />
<br />
<script language="Javascript"> <br />
<!-- <br />
//this simple script by a1javascripts.com <br />
//please leave credit and instructions intact <br />
//simply enter your emailname and emailserver below <br />
//and copy and paste to entire script where you want it to show. <br />
emailname = "webmaster" <br />
emailserver = "your-domain.com" <br />
//change the font face, color and size below <br />
document.write("<font face='Arial,Helvetica' size=-1>"); <br />
document.write("<a href='http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/mailto:" + emailname + "@" + emailserver + "'>"); <br />
document.write("<font color='ff0000'>"); <br />
document.write(emailname + "@" + emailserver); <br />
document.write("</a>"); <br />
document.write("</font>"); <br />
//--> <br />
</script> <br />
<br />
<br />
It's a little more foolproof then the other method mentioned.<!--content-->THANK YOU HTMLITE!!<br />
<br />
Here it is for those of you looking for it (this is from the linked post above)<br />
<br />
<br />
%40 is the URL encoded version of the @ symbol.... so: <br />
<!-- e --><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><!-- e --> is the same as <br />
myname%40mydomain.com<br />
<br />
<br />
And it works too!
<br />(thank you jason too - i found that js earlier - but am happy to find the html above!)<!--content-->Can't the robots simply be programmed to look for %40 instead of @? Do they look at the resultant page you and me see, or do they look at the HTML code that makes up webpages?<br />
<br />
Is there not some kind of META tag ... oh, no, wait, the entire problem with spam "harvesters", is that they want your email no matter what. So even if I was right about said tag, such people would ignore it.. Sigh.
<!--content-->I discovered a better way & here's a page you can go to encode your email addresses:<br /><br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.moonlightweb.com/emailencoder.html">http://www.moonlightweb.com/emailencoder.html</a><!-- m --><br />
<br />
as far as i know - the spam-bots aren't sophistcated enough (yet) to translate these!<!--content-->You can protect them by writing them like this: <br />
<br />
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <br />
<!-- <br />
var addr1 = "mailto:" <br />
var addr2 = "KWJams" <br />
var addr3 = "@" <br />
var addr4 = "truewest.net" <br />
document.write('<A HREF=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"' + addr1 + addr2 + addr3 + addr4 + '">') <br />
document.write('<img SRC=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"email.gif"></A></TD></TR></TABLE>!</A>') <br />
//--> <br />
</SCRIPT> <br />
<br />
Instead of like this: <!-- e --><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><!-- e --> (not real addy)<!--content-->i've attached a small perl script that you can use to solve your problem. It's pretty much the same thing as the Java script that people posted, but instead it's perl
(some people just prefer to not use javascripting)<!--content-->