Re: Contact form linking from "From:" header

[Earl Hood <earl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On January 9, 2004 at 16:09, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:

> > 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':

Note, you can probably avoid reading the .mhonarc.db, since it
is not efficient for large archives.

You can setup your script to just parse out the information from
the <!--X- ...--> comment headers at the top of a mhonarc message
page.

--ewh