Re: obfuscating email addresses on www.netbeans.org

Jack Catchpoole a écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> Just FYI : I've recently spent some time on this issue :
>
>    http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=43615
>
> Basically hiding email addresses from bot harvesters (or at least
> attempting to).  No soloution is 100% effective, and it is only
> effective until someone writes a smarter mail harverster :-/
>
> Anyway, this is live now on www - if you view the source of a
> page with an email address you'll see the characters of the
> address "disguised" as decimal html entities; there's also a
> javascript trick to try to hide it even more.  The browser
> interprets those entities and displays them as normal characters,
> so browsing the page everything looks normal.  Spam harversters
> don't parse the source like browsers, so they jsut see the codes
> and wont recognise them as email addresses.
>
> This is nice, but since we link to testwww for printable versions,
> all email addresses there need to be hidden also.  I'll try to
> convert existing emails there.  I'll set up an "obfuscator" tool
> somewhere so that if you need to use an email address in your
> content you can visit this tool, paste the email you need, and it
> will generate the html entity code for you to use in your testwww
> html.  I'll notify the list when that is done.
>
> This was a little tricky to implement, so please do keep your eye
> open for any problems, and let me know of anything strange.
>
> Note this is all for plain html *content* only, I cannot do
> anything about email addresses appearing eg in mailing list
> archives etc.  That's something Collab have to change in
> SourceCast, for info about that see :
>
>    http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=33201
>
>
Why not have a simple javascript function called displayEmail(leftpart, 
rightpart) ?

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