Have form, need mail...

[Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen]

Hi all,

I made myself a contact form. I have made all the
changes I was able to after I received useful
critique from Mr. Schuyt and others, but all the
mail I get are those I send to myself and that's
boring... I'd like to check if the system works
"globally" (I'm in Norway). If you enter your
email address, you will receive an automatic
reply, if all goes well. Then I'll send you a
"Thank you" mail for your effort! Anyone willing?
http://home.no.net/ingernet/cont.php

 

[brucie]

In alt.html Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen said:

http://home.no.net/ingernet/cont.php

couldn't find an email address to email you. not everyone likes forms.
and dump sending a copy to the email address supplied, people will use
your form to spam.

 

[brucie]

In alt.html brucie said:

couldn't find an email address to email you. not everyone likes forms.
and dump sending a copy to the email address supplied, people will use
your form to spam.

and you don't appear to be validating whats submitted. what happens to
your account if i upload 500mb or a few gb? shutdown for exceeding
account limit? extra charges? what happens if i upload a bit of evil
scripting?

 

[Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen]

In alt.html brucie said:

But still you tried my form! Thanks! (It was you,
not someone pretending to be you?)
The Home link takes you to a mailto-link (that
only works in IE, ugh...) and a text version of my
address. That's not enough? However, it was the
form I was eager to test this time.

Do people search for forms that sends automatic
responses and abuse them?

and you don't appear to be validating whats submitted. what happens to
your account if i upload 500mb or a few gb? shutdown for exceeding
account limit? extra charges? what happens if i upload a bit of evil
scripting?

71 kB of Lorem ipsum and a <? phpinfo(); ?> is no
problem, but why would anybody send me megs of
text? Do I have to prepare for that??

 

[brucie]

In alt.html Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen said:

Do people search for forms that sends automatic
responses and abuse them?

yes, its very popular. why have your own account shut down when you can
just use someones insecure form.

71 kB of Lorem ipsum and a <? phpinfo(); ?> is no
problem, but why would anybody send me megs of
text?

nothing better to do in the school holidays and just because they can.

Do I have to prepare for that??

*yes*

you need to check everything thats submitted and either cut it off or
dump it entirely.

 

[Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen]

In alt.html Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen said:




yes, its very popular. why have your own account shut down when you can
just use someones insecure form.




nothing better to do in the school holidays and just because they can.




*yes*

you need to check everything thats submitted and either cut it off or
dump it entirely.

The form was meant to reduce the spam flow, not
not to make it bigger! Seems I need help to get
those fields checked. I'd appreciate your help...

 

[brucie]

In alt.html Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen said:

The form was meant to reduce the spam flow, not
not to make it bigger!

only accept email with a text/plain mime and there isn't a spam issue.

Seems I need help to get those fields checked. I'd appreciate your
help...

sorry, its midnight. time for me to hunt and feeeeeeed.

this isn't too bad:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2004/08/26/PHPformhandling.html

you may want to check out:
http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

But still you tried my form! Thanks! (It was you,
not someone pretending to be you?)
The Home link takes you to a mailto-link (that
only works in IE, ugh...)

That's because your script is trying to do this:
document.write ('<a href='mailto:...'>Mail Me</a>');

Change the apostrophes around the mailto:..address to speech marks
instead.

 

[Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen]

That's because your script is trying to do this:
document.write ('<a href='mailto:...'>Mail Me</a>');

Change the apostrophes around the mailto:..address to speech marks
instead.

You mean "like this"? I even tried the ‘raised
commas’, but no changes...

 

[Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen]

You mean "like this"? I even tried the ‘raised commas’, but no changes...

The solution for me was to move all the contact
stuff into cont.php which already is plain
text/html. Even Brucie will be happy now (I hope!)

 

[Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen]

brucie wrote:

nothing better to do in the school holidays and just because they can.




*yes*

you need to check everything thats submitted and either cut it off or
dump it entirely.

Try it now, brucie!
I have made some changes to thr mail form. Send me
what you have!
http://home.no.net/ingernet/cont.php