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    Posted: 29 May 2003 at 8:56am

I use Bruce's excellent enquiry form and want to prevent SPAM harvesting.

Creating a send-email.asp file contains the email address(es) which could be harvested by email spammers.

But on View Source you can't see the email addresses.

Does this mean the spam harvesting robots can't either?

Or if they can see the email addresses in an asp file, does anyone know how to encrypt the email address? The methods I have tried so far don't work - the email doesn't get sent.

Thanks for any help

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Scotty32 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 May 2003 at 9:26am

am not sure wot you mean,

but am pretty sure "spammers" cant get ya email address if its only in the "<% ~ %>"

as the server takes it out

but wot script of borgs are you using? am not sure wot it is really

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote michael Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 May 2003 at 10:24am
If you are talking about the mailing list, it sends the email one by one so you would not see other email addys in the header
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Forestinternet Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 May 2003 at 11:06am

Thanks guys.

It would have been easier to give you the urls.
The form is here http://www.forest-design.net/form.htm

If you fill in the 3 reqd fields, press submit, the send-email.asp page appears. When you View Source on this page as Scotty_32
says above, the code between the "<% ~ %>" is not visible.
Does that mean spam harvesters can't see it either?

 

 

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Scotty32 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 May 2003 at 11:11am

well as far as i know, theres no way you can view the source of ASP without gettin the file via FTP or any other way like that, which i doubt Spammers can do

have you had problems with Spammers?

or is this just a question asking if Spammers can get it?

if its just a question then... Nope, i doubt they can get it

if it has happened, then is the email address on any other pages?

also do you send out a "Auto-Responder"?

* EDIT *

ooh i might as well say that the reason you cant see the "<% ~ %>" is becose the Server takes it out while processing the page, then sends it to the Vistor, therefor the vistor only will get Straight HTML in there Browser

this is how Spammers cant get your email address if its in the <% ~ %>

but if you did say

<%
    dim email
    email = "myemail@mydomain.com"
%>

<% Response.Write( email ) %>

then it will type out the email address into html so that wouldnt work

but if you just had your email address in the ASP Mailer Script, but didnt ask the Server to desply it, then it wouldnt show up..

if you do have to disply your email address

id say go to www.dynamicdrive.com and look for their thing that scrambles your email address up, so the Spam Bots cant get it
(but they'll probly find a way to)



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Gullanian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 May 2003 at 11:47am
just hardcode the email address you want to hide in the ASP code, you dont need to write it out anyway
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Scotty32 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 May 2003 at 12:13pm

narr, am just sayin the only way you could get the email address out of the ASP is if you did a Response.Write

i think, how it is, s/hes ok

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote fernan82 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 May 2003 at 1:50pm

it's impossible to get the asp source code (anything inside <% %>) via HTTP unless anybody can manage to disable your server's asp.dll which is almost imposible on a well secured server. asp.dll processed the asp code and sends plain HTML to the client browser, if that file ever gets disabled it would show your asp code on the browser as if you were looking at it on notepad.

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