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Obfuscating an email addresses in ColdFusion

August 3rd, 2007 Leave a comment Go to comments

It’s well known that spammers troll the web looking for email addresses. I located this page, oddly on a BMW Club site.

Essentially this page converts a text string to it’s representation in character entities.

Turns out writing this code in ColdFusion was pretty easy:




	
             
        
 Email Me

I reckon that there is probably a more succinct way to do this, and it REALLY should be in a CFC for reuse, but hopefully you will find it helpful.

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