I'm looking at putting some e-mail contact addresses on a web site, and
wanted to make it difficult for spammers to harvest them.
I found some Python code that I can call within my application. http://www.zapyon.de/spam-me-not/
It works exactly as expected. However, I am concerned that the technique
used for obsfucating the e-mail address may be a bit weak.
Searching the web it looks like the best solution for me might be to
embed JavaScript in the web page that dynamically generates the e-mail
address in the browser client.
I've found on-line tools that will generate suitable JavaScript, but
need to automate the "encoding" process in Python.
Now I could write suitable code myself, but would be surprised if it
wasn't already available. Any pointers?
To head of a few comments I'm anticipating ;-)
- no I don't want to use a contact form
- accessibility is an issue, but I'm also including postal addresses and
phone numbers giving alternatives to e-mail. Also the main enquiry
address won't be obfuscated. 3  1897 
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:10:31 +0100,
Andrew McLean <an*********@an dros.org.uk> wrote: I'm looking at putting some e-mail contact addresses on a web site,
and wanted to make it difficult for spammers to harvest them.
[ ... ]
Searching the web it looks like the best solution for me might be to
embed JavaScript in the web page that dynamically generates the e-mail
address in the browser client.
[ ... ]
Now I could write suitable code myself, but would be surprised if it
wasn't already available. Any pointers?
Pointers? What do you think this is, C? ;-) Try this:
def spam_averse_ema il_address( email_address, text ):
"""return HTML-embedded javascript to create a spam-averse mailto link"""
def char_codes( a_string ):
return ",".join(str(or d(a_char)) for a_char in a_string)
return """<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write(
'<a href="mailto:'
+ String.fromChar Code(%s)
+ '">'
+ String.fromChar Code(%s)
+ '<\/A>');
// -->
</script>""" % (char_codes(ema il_address), char_codes(text ))
The newlines within the triple quoted string are important; use that
function something like this:
print "<html>"
print "<head><title>T itle</title></head>
print "<body>
print "<P>%s</P>" % spam_averse_ema il_address( 'e****@mydomain .com',
'click here to email me' )
print "</body>"
print "</html>"
You mentioned accessibility; make sure that your HTML does something
sensible if the user's browser doesn't do javascript.
HTH,
Dan
--
Dan Sommers
<http://www.tombstoneze ro.net/dan/>
"I wish people would die in alphabetical order." -- My wife, the genealogist
Dan Sommers wrote: On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:10:31 +0100,
Andrew McLean <an*********@an dros.org.uk> wrote:
I'm looking at putting some e-mail contact addresses on a web site,
and wanted to make it difficult for spammers to harvest them.
[ ... ]
Searching the web it looks like the best solution for me might be to
embed JavaScript in the web page that dynamically generates the e-mail
address in the browser client.
[ ... ]
Now I could write suitable code myself, but would be surprised if it
wasn't already available. Any pointers?
Pointers? What do you think this is, C? ;-) Try this:
def spam_averse_ema il_address( email_address, text ):
"""return HTML-embedded javascript to create a spam-averse mailto link"""
def char_codes( a_string ):
return ",".join(str(or d(a_char)) for a_char in a_string)
return """<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write(
'<a href="mailto:'
+ String.fromChar Code(%s)
+ '">'
+ String.fromChar Code(%s)
+ '<\/A>');
// -->
</script>""" % (char_codes(ema il_address), char_codes(text ))
The newlines within the triple quoted string are important; use that
function something like this:
print "<html>"
print "<head><title>T itle</title></head>
print "<body>
print "<P>%s</P>" % spam_averse_ema il_address( 'e****@mydomain .com',
'click here to email me' )
print "</body>"
print "</html>"
You mentioned accessibility; make sure that your HTML does something
sensible if the user's browser doesn't do javascript.
HTH,
Dan
Bruno Desthuilliers has a nice one-liner:
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'o****@xiludom. gro'.split('@')])"
I came up with this:
python <<EOF
print "".join([chr(ord(i)^ord( j)^64) for (i,j) in
zip('hpqudxu',' BCEGKMQ')] +
list('ude.alcu. ibm@'[::-1]))
EOF
For mine, you you'll have to reverse the algorithm to generate the
"cipher text".
James
--
James Stroud
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
Box 951570
Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/
Dan Sommers wrote: On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:10:31 +0100,
Andrew McLean <an*********@an dros.org.uk> wrote:
I'm looking at putting some e-mail contact addresses on a web site,
and wanted to make it difficult for spammers to harvest them.
[ ... ]
Searching the web it looks like the best solution for me might be to
embed JavaScript in the web page that dynamically generates the e-mail
address in the browser client.
[ ... ]
Now I could write suitable code myself, but would be surprised if it
wasn't already available. Any pointers?
Pointers? What do you think this is, C? ;-) Try this:
def spam_averse_ema il_address( email_address, text ):
"""return HTML-embedded javascript to create a spam-averse mailto link"""
def char_codes( a_string ):
return ",".join(str(or d(a_char)) for a_char in a_string)
return """<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write(
'<a href="mailto:'
+ String.fromChar Code(%s)
+ '">'
+ String.fromChar Code(%s)
+ '<\/A>');
// -->
</script>""" % (char_codes(ema il_address), char_codes(text ))
The newlines within the triple quoted string are important; use that
function something like this:
print "<html>"
print "<head><title>T itle</title></head>
print "<body>
print "<P>%s</P>" % spam_averse_ema il_address( 'e****@mydomain .com',
'click here to email me' )
print "</body>"
print "</html>"
You mentioned accessibility; make sure that your HTML does something
sensible if the user's browser doesn't do javascript.
HTH,
Dan
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