Hi Everyone.

Some time last year i posted something like this on here for some feedback, and i'm back for the same thing, if possible.

I've wrote quite a simple script which is ment to hide your email address within the source code of your webpage, yet the email address is still visible on the webpage its self so it can still be used to click on etc.

At the moment its only as strong as the encryption method i am using, however i am working on something else using a key, but thats later down the line at the moment.

On what i know, email harvesters open up the source code for your webpages and then run routines etc to find email address's because of the patern an email address uses its easy to find.

http://fwddesign.net/ here you will find a holding page which has an email address, protected with my script, i would like you to break this please.

    All I have to do in Firefox is a "view generated source", and I see this link:

    <a href="mailto:info@fwdhosting.net?subject=holding%20page%20/%20fwddesign.net" title="Protected Email Designed By fwddesign.net">info@fwdhosting.net</a>

    So, any sufficiently "smart" email harvester program could do the same thing. As to how many (if any) such programs are smart enough to do so is a separate question, though, for which I do not have an answer -- but it's obviously possible.

      Well that just made me want to cry LOL....

      i got something like that when i high lighted the content on the actual webpage and then pasted in the dreamweaver code screen or any other basic notepad app, but if i pasted it on the design screen i got the actual javascript.

      EDIT
      So if there was a harvester made which could actually process javascript etc, they could do the same fuction as your web brobser. Would be interesting to see if there is any which can do this.

        The only sure way I know of is to use a "Contact Us" form that calls a script on the server, which then does the actual emailing; so that you never have to actually display your email address in any manner on the web pages themselves.

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