How are organizer e-mail addresses obfuscated?

[Nick]

When I add a new organizer, there’s some help text above the Phone field that says, “The e-mail address will be obfuscated on your site to avoid it getting harvested by spammers.” However, organizer e-mail addresses appear on the the single event view and don’t seem to be obfuscated or hidden in any way.

[Andras]

Hello Nick,

Thanks for reaching out! What a great question!

The email addresses look proper on the front-end. On the code side however most characters are converted to their html entities.

This email address:

[email protected]

looks like this in the code:

andras@tri.be

And on every pageload it is randomized which characters get encoded.

Hope this clarifies. Please let me know if you have any further questions. I’d be happy to help.

Cheers,
Andras

[Nick]

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[Andras]

This reply is private.

[Nick]

Oh! I was viewing it with the web inspector — the DOM is rendering the converted characters correctly. The actual HTML source is encoded. Thanks!

[Andras]

You’re super welcome, happy I could help. 🙂

Since this is resolved I am going to close this ticket, but if you need anything else related to this topic or another please create a new ticket and we’ll be happy to help.

Cheers,
Andras

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