question about a string of code

[Timothy Stowell]

In checking for broken links on a site I am helping a CC reconstruct, I came across this code - a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3e5047514b50597e50514c4a56505b4a10514c59" class="navlnk">Email Us

it ends with the closing < /a>.

Wondering if anyone else has run across such code?  Is this a type of code to provide for security purposes for an email?  Since the scrap of code says something about cgi - I'm guessing that this is some sort of script that would be on the FTP account?

I am just curious what the advantage of such is, where one might find this file or if it is just better to replace this with mailto?

Tim Stowell

ASC NYGenWeb

SC MNGenWeb

[Mary Schwanke]

Tim, Seems to be an email obfuscation, possibly via CloudFlare. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44418721/ive-seen-this-email-protection-on-a-website-and-would-like-to-know-how-they-hav  and https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170016-What-is-Email-Address-Obfuscation-.

MaryAlice Schwanke

 

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[Timothy Stowell]

Thanks Mary.  Maybe it has something to do with it being coded in NetObjects Fusion MX for Windows.

In looking at one of the 'live' pages on Rootsweb, I do see what the actual email address is - the former CC.

Descendants of Otheniel Brotherton (rootsweb.com)

Tim

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[Timothy West]

I agree with Mary. I feel compelled to also suggest using another method to obfuscate email addresses.  CGI scripts are notoriously insecure and subject to a variety of attacks.

...tim west...
Scott County Coordinator for the TNGenWeb Project
http://www.tngenweb.org/scott

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[Conni McDaniel Hall]

I use Email Address Encoder to protect mine and my contributor's email from scammers harvesting email addresses as much as possible.

http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html

The directions are all available on the page. It's easy peasy.

Conni McDaniel Hall

IPSC IAGenWeb

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