[thelist] Using JavaScript for non-clickable email addresses

[Robert Vreeland]

It  could be workable if all your users had fixed ip address, maybe an
internal site. In a public web site, there would be to many users who would
be using dynamically assigned ip addresses to be practical.
Robert Vreeland
Managing Partner
StudioFramework
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sarah Sweeney" <mr.sanders at designshift.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Using JavaScript for non-clickable email addresses


> > I just pondered a bit about that and wondered what you thing of that
idea:
> >
> > Link to a contact.php page with an id
> >
> > <a href="contact.php?id=222">
> >
> > The PHP page then checks the referrer and IP and gets the email from a
> > database or other mean of storage and sends back a mailto: header:
> >
> > <?PHP
> > /*
> >   insert referrer testing and DB voodoo here
> > */
> > header('Location:mailto:'.$email);
> > ?>
> >
> > Wouldn't that be a quite safe solution?
>
> This is an interesting idea, and sounds workable to me - but I'm
> guessing that since I've never heard of it before, maybe that means
> there's a good reason it won't work as intended so it's already been
> discarded as a workable solution. Does anyone know if this would work?
>
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