FS#717 Email link on pages

CSS, XHTML, JS, Browsers

• 

  2006-02-09 oshoukry

  Please forgive me if this is a known issue, I searched and didn't find it open.
  
  I just installed DokuWiki and created a few pages.
  On a page I created a list of contact info like:
  ^ Name ^ Email Address ^
  | Osman | <osman@somedomain.com> |
  
  When I view the page everything is find except that the link if you click on it it opens the mail composer and put this in the to:
  &#x6f; &#x73; &#x6d; &#x61; &#x6e; &#x40; &#x73; &#x6f; &#x6d; &#x65; &#x64; &#x6f; &#x6d; &#x61; &#x69; &#x6e; &#x2e; &#x63; &#x6f; &#x6d
  
  It is substituting email address for the hex codes, I then looked into the code, and I saw the following:
  In >> function emaillink($address, $name = NULL) {
  This line >> $link['url']   = 'mailto:'.rawurlencode($address);
  
  I changed this line to: $link['url']   = 'mailto:'.$address;
  
  And it did the trick.
  
  I am not sure why the rawurlencode was needed for the address,
  please advise if this is the fix or should the fix be something else.
  
  Thank you,
  
  Osman
• 

  2006-02-09 konus

  There is a option in the config file where you can switch options of mail obfuscation against harvesting bots off. Please see http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki%3Aconfig#mailguard
  With most browsers and email-clients the hex codes get decoded to a normal e-Mail Adress. Witch browser do you use?
  
  Please give feedback, if this solves your problem, so the case could be closed!
  
  BTW: I think mail obfuscating is not a very save way, anyway. I am sure if a browser can decode hex obfuscation, some harvester can do it too. I also think that visible decoding of mail adresses like "name [at] domamin [dot] com" can be decoded be some harvesters, because it follows rules. Maybe there is are no harvester today who are capable of this (I dont know), because there are many emails collectable without the extra effort, but somedays it could be.
  
• 

  2006-02-09 ach

  No, this is actually a bug in the current stable release, but fixed in the devel release. See FS#605.
• 

  2006-02-09 ach

  see FS#605
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