hi, i am creating site and would like to know what would be the best way to, at the minimum, make it difficult for email harvesting program to run through my application and get emails. on a details page, could i have a ajax request that fetches the email and update a div be of any use to making it difficult for spammers to harvest emails? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Jason Norris
2007-Jan-15 17:01 UTC
Re: will using ajax to fetch email help protect againt harvest?
Good idea, and it would probably work very well. I implemented a system where if a user wasn''t logged in, the app would not show contact information (phones and emails) unless they completed a simple text-based captcha. Then the contact info would be loaded in the div via AJAX. Then I scrapped it because I figured bots wouldn''t be harvesting from my site. And I also used mail_to "email_addy", :endode => ''hex'' to garble the addresses. Jason koloa wrote:> > hi, i am creating site and would like to know what would be the best way > to, at the minimum, make it difficult for email harvesting program to > run through my application and get emails. > > on a details page, could i have a ajax request that fetches the email > and update a div be of any use to making it difficult for spammers to > harvest emails? >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Tom.Obana-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
2007-Jan-15 20:38 UTC
Re: will using ajax to fetch email help protect againt harvest?
Interesting concept. That would make it virtually impossible, actually. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---