Keep email addresses out of Cloudflare's email obfuscation

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Cloudflare's Email Address Obfuscation (Scrape Shield) is on for the zone. It rewrites every email address in the HTML response into <span class="__cf_email__">[email protected]</span> and points the link at /cdn-cgi/l/email-protection, decoded by a script Cloudflare injects. Found live 2026-10-07:

• The dns@ contact address on all ten static pages (footer, About body, Privacy body) reads [email protected] without that script.
• The example addresses in the DMARCbis and p=reject articles (dmarc@example.com, jones@alumni.example.edu, finance@association.example) become links inside <code>.

Doc 26 asked for a plain address with no JavaScript. The zone setting needs the Cloudflare dashboard, so this wraps each address in <!--email_off--> ... <!--/email_off-->, which Cloudflare leaves alone. The app.js results note is rendered client side, so Cloudflare never sees it.

• tests/test_cloudflare_email_off.py: every address in static HTML is inside the markers, and the markers are balanced.
• tests/test_footer_attribution_identical.py: checks the visible footer with the markers removed (the comment syntax tripped its -- check) and asserts the markers are there.

Privacy page visible text is unchanged, so its Last updated date stays. HTML only, no cache-bust needed. Full suite: 2220 passed locally.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Updates
  • Email links and addresses across the site now include Cloudflare-compatible markup. Their displayed text, destinations, and surrounding page content remain unchanged.
• Tests
  • Added checks to verify that email addresses in static pages are enclosed by matching markers. Existing footer attribution checks continue to validate the visitor-visible text.

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Walkthrough

Static HTML email addresses are enclosed in Cloudflare email-protection comments. New tests scan static HTML for unwrapped addresses and unmatched markers. The footer attribution test checks that the contact link is wrapped while preserving its visible-content assertions.

Changes

Static email protection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Mark email addresses in static HTML static/*.html, static/articles/*.html	Email addresses in page content and footer links are enclosed in protection comments. Their displayed text and link destinations remain unchanged.
Validate email markers and attribution tests/test_cloudflare_email_off.py, tests/test_footer_attribution_identical.py	Tests scan static HTML for unwrapped email addresses, check that opening and closing marker counts match, and verify that the footer attribution’s contact link is wrapped.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: claude

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9595f

The privacy page’s required update date remains unchanged after a body edit; refresh it before merging. No broader user-facing failure is established.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 9595f

The exemptions cover an already-published contact address and documentation examples. The reviewed changes preserve address text and link destinations and introduce no material security risk.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• observed — The changed email content consists of the existing public contact address and documentation examples. These values and their existing destinations are unchanged between the comparison base and reviewed head.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• inferred — The intended control change is a narrow exemption from email anti-scraping obfuscation for deliberately published content. The inspected marked regions contain constant repository-authored addresses, not attacker-supplied values, credentials, or private tenant data. Actual edge handling remains unverified.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: wrapping static HTML email addresses with Cloudflare markers to prevent email obfuscation.
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- Line 111: Update the “Last updated” date in the privacy page to reflect this
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📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between df754a4 and 9595fa6.

📒 Files selected for processing (12)

• static/404.html
• static/about.html
• static/articles/dane.html
• static/articles/dmarcbis.html
• static/articles/dnssec.html
• static/articles/index.html
• static/articles/p-reject.html
• static/articles/spf-lookups.html
• static/index.html
• static/privacy.html
• tests/test_cloudflare_email_off.py
• tests/test_footer_attribution_identical.py

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