Extension talk:EmailObfuscator

Bot-accessible data problem
The problem with the methodology used by this extension is that you still have to specify the email address in a computer accessible way. It's wonderful that the HTML page lacks the plaintext email addresses, but they're still viewable in the page source.

All a bot creator would have to do is tell the bot to pull down the action=raw verisions of pages and parse them for instances of email addresses, and the functionality provided by this extension would be completely circumvented.

One thing that might work would be to pull the email address of a user (which is only available to the wiki system), then build that out using JS. So instead of this: Some Text You'd have this: Some Text Just a thought. --Jimbojw 17:03, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Doesn't work with MW 1.11.1
This extension needs to be altered to use the correct parameters for ParserAfterStrip (IE to set $text and return true instead of just returning the text) - if you use as is, you will get this error: Detected bug in an extension! Hook obfuscateEmailAddress failed to return a value; should return true to continue hook processing or false to abort.

I don't think it would take much to fix it - if I can I figure out the etiquette around posting updates here, I will post my efforts at a fix.

Cheers,

Pamela