Mailto:
Not sure when it dates from, but some time ago Netsurf stopped handling a mailto: responses properly. For example I have a perl contact program which can return a mailto: address. This does not get passed on. Try http://www.torrens.org/cgi-bin/Contact.cgi?Contact=Contact=Netsf This on ARMX6 5.27 (08-Jun-20) I tried the bug tracker but there seem to be no instructions as to how to use it. -- Richard Torrens. http://www.Torrens.org for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats and more! ___ netsurf-users mailing list -- netsurf-users@netsurf-browser.org To unsubscribe send an email to netsurf-users-le...@netsurf-browser.org
Re: mailto:
In article <57852acb56li...@torrens.org>, Richard Torrens (lists) wrote: > Recent Netsurf seems to have a problem with indirect mailto: urls. > e.g http://www.burwellness.co.uk/index.html In the body there are two > email buttons. These call a cgi program which (if the calling button > has sent a correct CheckVar) returns the relevant URL in the form > mailto:rich...@torrens.org NetSurf works as expected if you type a mailto: into the URL bar so it not working from an indirect script seems odd, doesn't it? > It is this indirect URL which now does not work. It's an anti-spam > system I have used for years and I have only recenly noticed it failing. Curious, I have just thrown together a PHP script here using those same forms and a method which works in Chrome using header() and it too fails with NetSurf. I found other postings with similar problems and one suggested using the Javascript alternative to header() which works in Chrome, but guess what NetSurf makes of that!! It works if Javascript is enabled!!! Inform the gentlemen of the press www.timil.com/temp/email-addy.php to download that script: www.timil.com/temp/dl-email-addy.php HTH T -- Tim Hill Find an event to attend at: http://timil.com/riscos/calendar/ Mimemap and other stuff: http://timil.com/riscos/
mailto:
Recent Netsurf seems to have a problem with indirect mailto: urls. e.g http://www.burwellness.co.uk/index.html In the body there are two email buttons. These call a cgi program which (if the calling button has sent a correct CheckVar) returns the relevant URL in the form mailto:rich...@torrens.org It is this indirect URL which now does not work. It's an anti-spam system I have used for years and I have only recenly noticed it failing. -- Richard Torrens. http://www.Torrens.org for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats and more!
Re: mailto:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 09:02:57AM +, Richard Torrens (lists) wrote: > > This system appears to defeat spammers - most of the email addresses that > have been spammed seem to have been harvested from computers by malware. We're getting dangerously off-topic here, but they mostly harvest them from: - usenet and mailing lists such as this (they are so bountiful, the harvesters simply special-case the mitigations that mailing list archival websites use to obscure addresses) - brute-forcing people's email passwords, not only to send spam through but to harvest addresses from your INBOX and address book. - Guesswork. Attempting to send an email is cheap, so when you get a list of current domains, you simply try all the common stuff, like "lists" or "tim". Doing it on your website with mailto: links isn't worth it these days, spidering the web like that is comparitively expensive compared to the above techniques. B.
Re: mailto:
In article <56ccf68de6...@timil.com>, Tim Hill <t...@timil.com> wrote: > Coincidentally, I have just been adding 'munge' to > http://timil.com/riscos and IME this conversion of a mailto link into > entities seems enough to prevent harvesting by spammers. Or the ones that > do are so useless it doesn't even reach me! My script required a hidden variable be sent - the variable determines the script action. This system appears to defeat spammers - most of the email addresses that have been spammed seem to have been harvested from computers by malware. -- Richard Torrens. http://www.Torrens.org for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats and more!
Re: mailto:
On 19 Feb 2018 Tim Hill <t...@timil.com> wrote: > In article <3d20e8cc56.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>, Peter Young > <pnyo...@ormail.co.uk> wrote: > [Snip] >> It works here with a plain email address. See on >> http://www.cheltglosntc.btck.co.uk/Walkinggroup where clicking my >> email address opens an email in MPro correctly. > Yes, that's a plain vanilla mailto: link which some people think gifts > your address to spammers. Do you receive lots of spam? No, not a huge amount. What I get is mostly on newsgroups, not via email. I think the Orpheus Internet filters are pretty good. >> I realise that not everyone is keen on having their email addresses on >> websites, but this is the only way it can be done on this site. I >> wouldn't know a cgi-bin if in bit me. > Coincidentally, I have just been adding 'munge' to > http://timil.com/riscos and IME this conversion of a mailto link into > entities seems enough to prevent harvesting by spammers. Or the ones that > do are so useless it doesn't even reach me! I don't think I can do that on the above site, but., as I said above, it's not a great deal of a worry for me. Best wishes, Peter. -- Peter Young (zfc Pt) and family Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
Re: mailto:
In article <3d20e8cc56.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>, Peter Young <pnyo...@ormail.co.uk> wrote: [Snip] > It works here with a plain email address. See on > http://www.cheltglosntc.btck.co.uk/Walkinggroup where clicking my > email address opens an email in MPro correctly. Yes, that's a plain vanilla mailto: link which some people think gifts your address to spammers. Do you receive lots of spam? > I realise that not > everyone is keen on having their email addresses on websites, but this > is the only way it can be done on this site. I wouldn't know a cgi-bin > if in bit me. Coincidentally, I have just been adding 'munge' to http://timil.com/riscos and IME this conversion of a mailto link into entities seems enough to prevent harvesting by spammers. Or the ones that do are so useless it doesn't even reach me! -- Tim Hill timil.com : tjrh.eu : butterwick.eu : blue-bike.uk : youngtheatre.co.uk
Re: mailto:
On 19 Feb 2018 "Richard Torrens (lists)" <li...@torrens.org> wrote: > I think the response to mailto: may be broken! > I have a new site > http://www.burwellness.co.uk/ > where there is a contact link - if you want to try it, it is the link under > Therapy Rooms to let > This calls a cgi-bin which returns the email address. This works on > Android/chrome and on Firefox, but not on Netsurf. > I've used this system before with Netsurf, so something seems to have > changed. The contact tab at the top uses the same cgi-bin but links to a > web page. It works here with a plain email address. See on http://www.cheltglosntc.btck.co.uk/Walkinggroup where clicking my email address opens an email in MPro correctly. I realise that not everyone is keen on having their email addresses on websites, but this is the only way it can be done on this site. I wouldn't know a cgi-bin if in bit me. Best wishes, Peter. -- Peter Young (zfc Pt) and family Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
mailto:
I think the response to mailto: may be broken! I have a new site http://www.burwellness.co.uk/ where there is a contact link - if you want to try it, it is the link under Therapy Rooms to let This calls a cgi-bin which returns the email address. This works on Android/chrome and on Firefox, but not on Netsurf. I've used this system before with Netsurf, so something seems to have changed. The contact tab at the top uses the same cgi-bin but links to a web page. -- Richard Torrens. http://www.Torrens.org for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats and more!
Re: mailto: redirections
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, John-Mark Bell wrote: On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:14:26 +0200, Stefan Bellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Location: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this known or event intended behaviour or a bug I should report on the tracker? Fun :) Please report this. It'll be an unexpected regression courtesy of the rewritten redirect handling (which, in all other ways, is far superior to the previous mess). Fixed in SVN. John.
mailto: redirections
Dear developers, just a short question here, if it turns out to be an issue I'll add it to the tracker at sf.net. On my sites I use form submits with PHP code behind and generate a reply with a header like this: Location: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] With previous NetSurf versions this worked flawlessly, far more better than with every other browser I have found (the other browsers all show the site content of that page, which is an alternative instruction of how to contact one, _and_ open a mailer, whereas NetSurf just opened the mailer like an ordinary mailto: link does). However, recent NetSurf versions don't do this anymore, but just react with: Sorry, NetSurf was unable to display this page The address mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] could not be understood. You can test this behaviour e.g. on the bottom right of http://www.sbellon.de/ Is this known or event intended behaviour or a bug I should report on the tracker? Greetings, Stefan -- Stefan Bellon
