HTML/Javascript question

[freakbrother 0]

Does anyone have a clever bit of html or Javascript that allows one to break up an email address on a web site so that the nasty spammers' crawlers won't see it? (Like, making it the concatenation of two string variables).

I'm sure that it is fairly straightforward (well, I could do it in 2 lines of FORTRAN, but that doesn't help much).

Last time I put a clicky email address on a web site I was inundated by spam within a week.

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[mailin 0]

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allows one to break up an email address on a web site

That kinda depends - what are you using the email address for - as a mailto: link for people to click and send an email or what?

As far as I know, there is no way to do that and still make the link useable... thats why you see alot of people using something like:

MyName"AT"email.com


Jen

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[freakbrother 0]

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allows one to break up an email address on a web site

That kinda depends - what are you using the email address for - as a mailto: link for people to click and send an email or what?

As far as I know, there is no way to do that and still make the link useable... thats why you see alot of people using something like:

MyName"AT"email.com


Jen

Are you sure? I thought javascript could do it (or at least fake it). But my knowledge of anything much post FORTRAN77 and 8086 Assembler is scanty at best.

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[pilotdave 0]

Try this: http://www.hotscripts.com/search/827114.html

If that doesn't work, go to http://www.hotscripts.com and do a search for hide email address in the javascript section.

Dave

[Daizey 0]

A simple way using html is to subsititute @ for the @ symbol

for example

Email Me!

Since the HTML code doesn't look like a proper email address, spam typically doesnt pick it up...But the browser understands the code and displays it on the page properly.

If you want to use Javascript try this...

Example: daizey@dropzone.com

*daizey*

[Iota 0]

Just keep in mind.. any 'popular' methods (i.e. ones avail for download) are likely to be detected by spam crawlers. It's already proven that out of work programmers are 'for hire' to the spammers so keep that in mind.

One of the tricks I do I store the ASCII char values of the email address in an array, then call a function to construct the email address out of the array. Sometimes I'll even store it in reverse and read the array right to left for another layer.

Iota

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[Slurp56 0]

I was going to suggest the HTML alphabet as well.

http://www.kerryr.net/pioneers/html2.htm

Or you could just do a javascript in an onclick event that will change the location to the mailto address.

window.location ='bite@me.com';

You could even write a function, if you only plan to send email address's to one domain, like if its a personal web page where all email address's end in "@hotmail.com". Then in an onclick event do:
onClick="javascript:myEmail(myEmail);";

function myEmail(x)
{
window.location = x + "@hotmail.com";
}

Hope this helps :)

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[Casch 0]

I don't know the context of how you want to use this on your website, but on my website I wrote PHP script to handle e-mailing. The end-user never gets mine or any of my members e-mail addresses unless he/she is replied to, since they e-mail through a normal form. That form is passed into a PHP handler that pulls the members e-mail address from the database and sends the e-mail off without the users browser ever recieving any trace of an e-mail address.

It's a little more complicated, but without hacking the database it (should be) impossible for anyone to pull an e-mail address off my website

Here is my websites Contacts page: http://avclan.net/?page=contactus

[freakbrother 0]

Thanks guys (and girls). What a bunch of techies there are around here. Hope you're all Freak Brothers too!

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[kallend 2,027]

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Just keep in mind.. any 'popular' methods (i.e. ones avail for download) are likely to be detected by spam crawlers. It's already proven that out of work programmers are 'for hire' to the spammers so keep that in mind.

One of the tricks I do I store the ASCII char values of the email address in an array, then call a function to construct the email address out of the array. Sometimes I'll even store it in reverse and read the array right to left for another layer.

Iota

I'm sure that's a possibility, but when there are so many fish that are easy to catch, why cast your net where the fishing's difficult?

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[devinator 0]

If you do search in google for crawler or spider script. On my website I have a text file in the in the root folder that has code in it that tells spiders and crawlers to not look at folder I put in this file. I am on my laptop right now but on my desk top I have link. There is a website that allows you to test this file as well. it is works night