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equinox69
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Jul 8, 2009, 1:11 AM

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Hi Dave and Co,
I've been using Spambot for several months now and I really, really appreciate it.

One feature that is a MUST is having it scramble for multiple recipients. I use it on .php forms, like on free quote forms, etc. for clients and several clients have multiple recipients (like to a backup email box) separated by a comma. What happens is the first email address in the sequence gets scrambled and any others after the comma are not scrambled. It would be great to have a fix for this and make it completely safe.


(This post was edited by equinox69 on Apr 2, 2010, 12:58 PM)


Dave
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Jul 8, 2009, 11:55 AM

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Sure, can you paste some short example html of emails that don't get encoded? I'll take a look.

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com
 


equinox69
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Jul 8, 2009, 12:46 PM

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Hi Dave,
<edited out for security>
Sure. I'll post one from a simple form I use that is similar to my clients (don't want to post client info in forum). Below is a link to the live form page and then below that is the regular code snippet and then the sample of scrambled code resulting from spambot.

www.sitename.com/freequote.php
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<br>
<input type=hidden name="recipient" value="person@sitename.com;info@sitename.com">

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<input type=hidden name="recipient" value="&#99;&#x6f;&#110;&#x74;&#97;&#99;&#116;&#64;&#100;&#117;&#x6c;&#x6c;&#x65;&#115;&#109;&#x65;&#x64;&#105;&#x61;&#46;&#99;&#x6f;&#109;,info@dullesmedia.com">


(This post was edited by equinox69 on Apr 2, 2010, 12:58 PM)


Dave
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Jul 19, 2009, 1:43 PM

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Hi Terry,

I've been working on this one for a bit. Because of the way the program works, it may not be possible without a rewrite. The problem is there's a lot more situations where you could have content _and_ an email address in a field, and to encode it we'd need to recognize if any of the content was already encoded.

Anyways, I'm going to give it some more thought and see if I can come up with a simpler method to accommodate that usage case.

Thanks!

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com
 


equinox69
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Jul 20, 2009, 5:46 PM

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Dave,
thanks for the serious reflection on the issue and trying to develop a solution. It is a common scenario and this particular format is a common simple usage of mailto function in a form. I'm the web design/search engine specialist and not the heavy programmer (that's why I call YOUR company Wink ) but if there was a simple if/then way tosearch the strings for ampersands with alphanumeric just before or maybe even the string just after the ampersand, leaving the rest alone. Good luck. Please let us know when a solution does come up. Other than that it's been a fantastic simple solution so far.

Cheers!