Malito

Malito is a URI scheme similar to mailto: used to initiate email composition. However, unlike mailto:, malito: allows for the specification of multiple recipients in the "To," "CC," and "BCC" fields within a single URI, and provides mechanisms to obfuscate those addresses to hinder email harvesting bots. The purpose is primarily to improve email address security on websites by making it harder for bots to scrape email addresses from HTML source code. While mailto: is widely supported by email clients, malito: is not a standard URI scheme and requires specific client-side JavaScript code to parse and correctly populate the email client's composition window. Its support depends entirely on the implementation provided by the website developer. The core idea is to encode the recipients and other parameters and then decode them using JavaScript to construct a standard mailto: URI or directly populate form fields within an email client via custom script actions. Because it relies on JavaScript execution, it is susceptible to issues if JavaScript is disabled in the user's browser. Furthermore, the level of obfuscation it provides is limited; a determined bot could still execute the JavaScript and extract the email addresses.