How to hide the HTML Code?

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Post May 10th, 2003, 7:03 am

How do i hide my source code?
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Post May 10th, 2003, 7:03 am

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Post May 10th, 2003, 9:52 am

3 things...

1. welcome to ozzu. :D

2. you can't hide your source code, the internet is an open source arena
and it's not possible at this time to do so.

3. if you had tried a search on this, you'd have found this :wink: :
http://www.ozzu.com/viewtopic.php?t=117

As you can see it's been discussed at length already. There are
altneratives at attempting what you want, but none are very successful.
Check the thread, you will see what I mean.
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Post May 10th, 2003, 12:03 pm

basically...
1. A browser reads HTML code.
2. I can read HTML code.

You can make it harder to find or even encrypt it to make it harder to read, but in the end you can't hide it completely.
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Post May 10th, 2003, 2:40 pm

what would be the reason to hide the code?
if someone these days, really wants to steal something off your site...
they are gonna do it. and cheap tactics, like disabling right click, will just
encourage someone to try and do it anyway. and, by disabling right click,
chances are your going to take some features away from other users that, one uses every day, like myself, i like to right click to go back, and forward. so if that's disabled, chances are, i'm going to just alt-w. :D

only cases of that that really, really get on my nerves, are the people that offer wallpapers on their sites, but don't allow right clicking to set wallpapers to desktop. lol.

just my two coppers.
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Post May 11th, 2003, 12:34 pm

Well there is ways surely things like doing a window.open so that it takes off the file,edit, view menu and disabling right clicking that way they can't view the source but there is always ways of getting something and i have heard of cgi scripts that strip pages of their html so its a pointless exercise lol
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Post May 11th, 2003, 9:52 pm

dreamer7 wrote:
Well there is ways surely things like doing a window.open so that it takes off the file,edit, view menu and disabling right clicking that way they can't view the source but there is always ways of getting something and i have heard of cgi scripts that strip pages of their html so its a pointless exercise lol
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it really is pointless. what do you have on your page that you want to
hide so bad?

the normal practice is that if you don't want others to get at it, don't
upload it to the internet. ;)
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Post May 12th, 2003, 12:40 am

you could always embed your content in a flash file...
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Post May 12th, 2003, 12:49 am

You could also protect all your content behind a password protected directory so that nobody but yourself would see it :)
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Post May 12th, 2003, 7:37 pm

flash files can be decomplied easily now.
sux, but it's true. :roll:

i think password protection really is the only sensible way. Or make the
link to the content only available after giving certain information. So, the
download link was at a very specific, non-public url.

I did site like that. Unless you were truly interested in the product, there
was no way for you to get to the trial software without signing up.
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Post May 12th, 2003, 9:30 pm

It's like Ed says, it can be read.

you can make it harder for the avarage user or newbie webmaster to get to your source but in the long run,
there is software to be had on the net that can pretty much download everything from a server
without as much as doing a GET request via HTTP.

I've got some software here, where I could easy
step onto your server, download everything you have on it
and dicect it later for my use.

the easiest way to keep newbie webmasters from figuring out
how you did something is by hidding in a zero sized frame,
put the no rightclick codeon each page along side one of those
codes to check if it's toploaded outside of it's frameset,
then yank then to the front main framset page again.

it's a cat and mouse game,
in the end people *can* get to it if they absolutely want to!

also do double check any rightclick script you plan on using,
I've seen one where you could not rightclick in any browser,
but all you had to do was right click on an image and you could
view source.

talk about defective coding ...

if you're going to try and hide your source,
you can do it to a degree but don't spend too much time on it,
where there is a will there is a way.
people will and can get to your source if they want.
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Post May 13th, 2003, 1:00 am

Exactly. If your browser can read it, so can anybody else (just like ed said)
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Post May 13th, 2003, 8:04 pm

steen is the master at making code difficult to find and get. REALLY! he is! He taught me quite a few things about it, some of which I use.

It's cool stuff, but as everyone has stated over and over, it's impossible
to totally hide it.
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Post May 14th, 2003, 7:39 am

lol there is always the easy way of using php to display content on pages then they will never know what the source is then lol
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Post May 14th, 2003, 1:37 pm

They may not know the PHP source, but they will know the output of the HTML source.
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Post May 14th, 2003, 7:46 pm

UNFLUX wrote:
steen is the master at making code difficult to find and get. REALLY! he is! He taught me quite a few things about it, some of which I use.

It's cool stuff, but as everyone has stated over and over, it's impossible
to totally hide it.


what you really mean is this:

I tried to copy Steen's *plum* and couldn't cuz he made it near impossible
to get at and therefor I had to end up asking how he did something.

ROFL ... sucker!
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