Question

I’m having a seemingly simple problem, but I haven’t found a way to debug it.

In the admin on our production website, when editing an object that has a ForeignKey to User, all the users show up as [email protected]. That makes the admin unusable in these areas!

I tried googling the problem, but because the term “email protected” appears in many mailing lists in an unrelated context, I can’t find a solution. Also, I searched for “email protected” in the Django codebase but I didn’t find it.

Any idea what to do?

Answer 1

I don’t really know the answer but whenever I see [email protected] showing up on Google, if I navigate to the link then the email shows up and if I inspect the element it has near it this piece of javascript:

/* <![CDATA[ */
(function(){try{var s,a,i,j,r,c,l=document.getElementById("__cf_email__");a=l.className;if(a){s='';r=parseInt(a.substr(0,2),16);for(j=2;a.length-j;j+=2){c=parseInt(a.substr(j,2),16)^r;s+=String.fromCharCode(c);}s=document.createTextNode(s);l.parentNode.replaceChild(s,l);}}catch(e){}})();
/* ]]> */

This may help you further. (Inspect your element to see if this applies to you too.)

If you see it in your code too then This and this may help you.

EDIT: It seems that it is caused by Cloudflare’s email obfuscation.