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desi

11-12-2002, 08:15 AM

hiya all is there anyway to stop people from viewing the the source code ...

like in IE if you got to View => source they can view the entire source code any way to stop that from happening ??

thanks

Erwin

11-12-2002, 08:20 AM

No.

You can use Javascript to prevent right clicking, but no matter what you do, when you view a page online, the browser downloads the page onto your hard disk - so you will always have a copy of the source code of every page you go to.

The only way is to encrypt the HTML - there are scripts to do this -but that slows down page loading.

desi

11-12-2002, 08:24 AM

oh ... then nevermind thanks on the info :)

but can't u use frames and they will take care of it all ?

JulianD

11-12-2002, 01:08 PM

THere is no "real" way to hide the source code... Only some "tricks" that will prevent the normal users with little knowledge from viewing it... But basically, you can't hide the source code on a HTML page.

Erwin

11-12-2002, 07:44 PM

Originally posted by desi
but can't u use frames and they will take care of it all ?

You can just right-click and View Source in the frame. If you disable right-click, the framed HTML page will still be on your hard disk, in Temporary Files. :)

NTLDR

11-12-2002, 08:13 PM

The right mouse button on they keyboard is your friend when sites use anyoying scripts like that trying to be cleaver ;)