On January 9, 2004 at 16:09, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:2) The contact form script uses the message ID to grab the "From:" header from .mhonarc.db.
Note, you can probably avoid reading the .mhonarc.db, since it is not efficient for large archives.
You can setup your script to just parse out the information from the <!--X- ...--> comment headers at the top of a mhonarc message page.
Hmm.. Yes, I see that now. Thanks for the tip.
So far, my thinking about possibly large database files has been that the buttons won't probably be used that much, so the resulting server load shouldn't be a problem. But you are right, the info is available in those comment headers.
What bothers me about it is that since I can easily parse - and deobfuscate - the from addresses, so can the spammers... So I can't help wondering what the "X-From-R13:" header is normally used for, and if it's really needed. ;-)
-- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl
