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Re: PHP Mailto();

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On 2013-07-01 5:08 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 01/07/13 06:03, J.O. Aho wrote:
>> On 01/07/13 01:29, Twayne wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Win 7, PHP 5.3.5, XAMPP local server, standard Unix remote server:
>>>
>>> having a problem with mailto. It's working fine, but ... I can't figure
>>> how to get it to contain all the information I want sent to me. I have
>>> the following:
>>> =========================
>>> $header = "From: abuse@hcs-classof64.net";
>>> $to = "abuse@hcs-classof64.net";
>>> $subject = "HCS Abuse Form";
>>> $header = "From: $name\r\n";
>>
>> you forgot the . in front of the =, as now you replace the original From.
>>
>>> $header .= "Reply-To: abuse@hcs-classof64.net\r\n";
>>
>> No need of this, if you use the original From.
>>
>>> $header .= "Return-Path: abuse@hcs-classof64.net\r\n";
>>>
>>> mail($to, $subject, $comments , $respond, $header);
>>
>> you know that you are sending your headers to the "sendmail command",
>> see www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
>>
>> mail($to, $subject, $comments, $header);
>>
>>> ========================
>>>     And it seems to work fine. But what I'd like to add to the mailto is
>>> the following:
>>> =======================
>>> $browser = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
>>> $ipAddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
>>> =======================
>>>
>>> I've tried the Headers method, simply adding them inlilne. No Good.
>>> I've also tried "and"ing things together like " $comments . $respond "
>>> for instance, but then they all run together and it's difficult to spot
>>> the additional information since there are no line breaks.
>>
>> If you want to add something to the header, then use
>> "X-something: data\r\n"
>>
>
> Be aware that some combinations of never identified php configurations
> and/or mailer MTAS do not seem to like the extra "\r" even though its
> strict RFC compliant.
> I spent several hours trying various combinations before I settled on a
> simple "\n" only, and mail worked as expected.

Well at least I know what to experiment with anyway<grin.  Thanks.

>
> Where PHP or the MTA was adding in the "\r" automatically  I never
> discovered, but something was. (linux system)

I had that situation too; removing any newline of any sort from the 
particular statement corrected it.

>
>
>> Don't use two "From:", use "X-Sender:" for the $name, don't forget to
>> sanitize the user input or else you will end up with mail header
>> injections.
>>
>> $header .= "X-Sender: $name\r\n"; // needs sanitation
>> $header .= "X-UserAgent: $browser\r\n"; // needs sanitation
>> $header .= "X-IP: $ipAddress\r\n";
>>
>> To lessen risk for header injections, include those in the body/message.
>>
>> $comments .= "Abuse Sender: $name\n"; // needs sanitation
>> $comments .= "User Agent: $browser\n"; // needs sanitation
>> $comments .= "IP: $ipAddress\n";
>>
>
>

Thanks Nat,

Twayne`

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