Protect Against Spam Crawlers

Mp)Tarh · 08-10-2003, 09:54 AM

How to protect your e-mail address:

This tutorial will show you how to protect your e-mail address against Spam Crawlers. If you don't already know what Spam Crawlers are, read this post by DarkDevil located here.

So, how do you protect your e-mail? Easy, it can be done with simple JavaScript - no need to use complicated Images or REMOVE text in e-mail links.

Let's take a basic example of an e-mail link to me@somewhere.com

<A HREF="mailto:me@somewhere.com" ALT="Mail Me!">me@somewhere.com</A>

Now this will not work, a Spam Crawler could pick up this e-mail easily. So how would you protect the example above? Like this:

-------------------- Revised Version ----------------------
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

</SCRIPT>

<A HREF="JavaScript:void(1)" ALT="Mail Me!" onClick="mailme()" >Mail me</A>
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/webmaster-tutorials/15115-howto-protect-against-spam-crawlers.html
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Pretty easy once you think about it huh?

Happy Programming!

P.S. In the second example the <A HREF> is pointing to "java script:void(1)", this was modified by the forum - in reality there are no spaces in "javascript:void(1)"

[edit]: I added the P.S.

Jamie_net · 01-01-2004, 11:54 AM

Wow, I never knew how they even got my email off my website!

Webtwink · 01-01-2004, 03:40 PM

wow this is a nice tutorial

InteractAsia · 01-01-2004, 09:14 PM

thanks for that

08-10-2003, 09:54 AM	THREAD STARTER #1 (permalink)
Mp)Tarh NamePros Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 98	Protect Against Spam Crawlers How to protect your e-mail address: This tutorial will show you how to protect your e-mail address against Spam Crawlers. If you don't already know what Spam Crawlers are, read this post by DarkDevil located here. So, how do you protect your e-mail? Easy, it can be done with simple JavaScript - no need to use complicated Images or REMOVE text in e-mail links. Let's take a basic example of an e-mail link to me@somewhere.com <A HREF="mailto:me@somewhere.com" ALT="Mail Me!">me@somewhere.com</A> Now this will not work, a Spam Crawler could pick up this e-mail easily. So how would you protect the example above? Like this: -------------------- Revised Version ---------------------- <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- hide me function mailme() { window.location = "m" + "a" + "i" + "l" + "t" + "o" + ":" + "me"+ "@" + "somewhere" + "." + "c" + "o" + "m"; } //--> </SCRIPT> <A HREF="JavaScript:void(1)" ALT="Mail Me!" onClick="mailme()" >Mail me</A> ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/webmaster-tutorials/15115-howto-protect-against-spam-crawlers.html ------------------------------------- Pretty easy once you think about it huh? Happy Programming! P.S. In the second example the <A HREF> is pointing to "java script:void(1)", this was modified by the forum - in reality there are no spaces in "javascript:void(1)" [edit]: I added the P.S. __________________ Yeah... I knew that. What?

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Jamie_net NamePros Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Usa Posts: 136	Wow, I never knew how they even got my email off my website! __________________ eyeonjamie.net

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