EmailObfuscationPlugin

This plugin replaces characters in email address with their appropriate HTML entity references. This is intended to help prevent email harvesters from recognising addresses.

Syntax Rules

• N/A

Examples

• user@examplePLEASENOSPAM.com (If you view source you should see that the string is encoded).

Plugin Settings

Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%, i.e. %NEWPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%

• Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Obstuficates e-mail addresses by characters to their HTML character entity references.

• Debug plugin: (See output in data/debug.txt)
  • Set DEBUG = 0

• Range of characters to encode (NOTE: Setting a bad range here can result in your TWiki not displaying content, please ensure that a correct range is used and that the Plugin topic is locked to TWikiAdminGroup):
  • Set ESCAPELIST = \000-\056\072-\100\133-\140\173-\177

Plugin Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this plugin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the plugin on the TWiki server.

• Ensure you have the HTML::Entities module installed from CPAN.
• Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
• Unzip EmailObfuscationPlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

• Configure the Plugin:
  • TWiki 4.0 and up: Run the configure script to enable the Plugin
  • Change the Plugin settings as needed

Plugin Info

Related Topics: TWikiPlugins, DeveloperDocumentationCategory, AdminDocumentationCategory, TWikiPreferences

-- TWiki:Main.StephenGordon - 17 May 2006