#24643 [Csd]: email address gets published on www unobfusciated

ID: 24643 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported By: jelte dot werkhoven at itfy dot com Status: Closed Bug Type: Website problem Operating System: irrelevant PHP Version: Irrelevant Assigned To: goba New Comment: Heh, if that's what you think: great ;-) But actually it was reported before already... Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-07-14 04:06:18] jelte dot werkhoven at itfy dot com Thanks guys for your rediculously quick action on this bug. I timed you at a little over twenty minutes from my submission to your solution. Kudos! And yes, I quite alright with having my email adres in manpages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-07-14 03:57:44] goba@php.net By the way, we have a blocking statement for robots in our robots.txt to prevent them form indexing our backend data. This does not work for that mirror you found the data on, as the rule says /backend/.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-07-14 03:54:17] goba@php.net I have just fixed the code to make obfuscation work on the server where those data files are generated. I have not employed base64 encoding as all the data will go out as plain text anyway on the manual pages, so the obfuscated versions can be collected from the manpages too. Therefore there is no point to base64 code that part in the communication, as that is not the "weakest part" of the email address transportation and display chain. As the original reporter had no problem with the obfuscated version available from the manpages, I hope he will have no problem with this solution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-07-14 03:38:56] derick@php.net This will be fixed shortly (by base64 encoding the email addy or something similar). Assigning to Goba as per docmeeting discussion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-07-14 03:36:06] jelte dot werkhoven at itfy dot com Description: ------------ I added a comment to the dba_replace function a while ago, and am now receiving more and more spam on an up till now spam free email address. A google search on my email address pointed to a php.net mirror ( and only this site showed my full email address ): sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/infosystems/phpweb/backend/notes/cd/cd037b6261327c44 I wrote the webmaster at this address and he referred me to you, stating "It is a mirror of www.php.net. It would be much better to change it at www.php.net/backend/notes/cd/cd037b6261327c44 ". I would be much appreciated if making a comment on php.net does not result in spambots harvesting the email addresses of commenters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=24643&edit=1