Re: Contact form linking from "From:" header

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have made a couple of changes to the set-up, which I'd like to call
your attention to.

Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> 1) I converted the "From:" header to a hyperlink to the contact
> form script by editing the resource file. The message ID is
> appended to the URL as a query string.

The link has now been replaced with a form button, so that the data
gets URI escaped.

> 2) The contact form script uses the message ID to grab the "From:"
> header from .mhonarc.db. This is the script that serves as a
> 'link' between MHonArc and CGI::ContactForm:
>
>     ftp://ftp.gunnar.cc/pub/gunnar/mhonarc/contact.pl.txt

That is now a minimal script. Instead I'm now using a sub module to
CGI::ContactForm that 'does the job':

    ftp://ftp.gunnar.cc/pub/gunnar/mhonarc/MHonArc.pm.txt

> (So far it's a 'quick-and-dirty' fix. I suppose that it would be 
> advisable to URI encode the message ID, for instance.)

Less 'quick-and-dirty' now. :)

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl