Email addresses

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I like the way Freeway stores the email addresses in Quick Links that I use on the pages.

This latest beta shows @-character as %40 in the addresses. This is a bit annoying eventhough the addresses work OK when the pages are uploaded.

Anyone else seen this?

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I have, but I haven’t isolated it yet so I have not reported it. There are times I do see the @ symbol as well.

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I just tried this as an experiment and it had mailto:in&#102 etc but then still showed my email address including the @ afterwards following the closed > so doesn’t that mean any robot collecting addresses for spam can just read the address and add it to their database?

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Sometime around 2/3/08 (at 09:53 -0500) cornishman said:

I just tried this as an experiment and it had
mailto:in&#102 etc but then still showed my email address
including the @ afterwards following the closed >

What should happen is that the code itself (which is what spammer
spider tools look at) shows encoded ‘entities’ instead of plain
characters, but the browser renders those into their character
equivalents. They see junk, the browser shows you not-junk. :slight_smile:

So as long as this outlines what you’re describing, all is well.

k

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Yes but in the source code itself after that garbled text it does show my full email address. Can’t the spider just read my email address like that?

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I’ve just checked an old site I did a few years back on Dreamweaver. At the time I used some 3rd party app to encode the email and it shows the address clearly on the page itself, but view the source code and its never visible. With Freeway its still visible.

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Sometime around 2/3/08 (at 10:35 -0500) cornishman said:

Yes but in the source code itself after that garbled text it does
show my full email address. Can’t the spider just read my email
address like that?

Erm… yes.

It sounds like putting the actual email address text into the page
layout, as HTML text, leaves it unencoded. It is the mailto link
contents that gets encoded - so make the user-visible content of your
link something other than the email address itself.

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OK fair enough, however that 3rd part app allowed me to put my email address on the page and still have it obscured within the source code. Couldn’t Freeway do the same?

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Tim Plumb’s Action can do that, and I suspect that Freeway can be
made able to do this as well. There has been some work on this area
between the last two public betas. Recall that the previous one would
also encode any e-mail addresses that it found in code that was
entered using HTML Markup or Markup Items – clearly a bit too
aggressive, as how are you to add mail functions to your code without
entering addresses? I suspect that this feature will get some more
fine-tuning before it’s released. Please file a bug report, and that
will get the ball rolling.

Walter

On Mar 2, 2008, at 10:48 AM, cornishman wrote:

OK fair enough, however that 3rd part app allowed me to put my
email address on the page and still have it obscured within the
source code. Couldn’t Freeway do the same?

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I don’t think this is working as it should. It’s easy enough to encode both the mailto link and the address that appears on the page. In Freeway 4 I do this with an HTML markup item.

I’ve sent a bug report.

Michael

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