Preserved Topic: Hiding HTML code from Client

Hello all,

Is there any true way to hide your HTML source from the people who browse your site?

Karl

Karl www.AZProGolf.com
karl@azprogolf.com

Karl: Yes but I would rather you didn't - we all learn fromnosing through other people's source and if someone really wanted to lift you site they'd find a way. People rarely do anything so new and original that they would really contemplate this.

If you really need to do this then see here:
www.stickysauce.com/misctools/encrypter.htm

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Emps

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i doubt that this is 100%secure. i think there might be a way to reencrypt that code...

Hey thanks for the tips.. they actually aren't for myself. Someone I know was asking, they would like to hide the tags they use for optimizing their pages for the search engines from competitors who might be interested in the composition of them.

Karl

Karl www.AZProGolf.com
karl@azprogolf.com

Impossible. This has been discussed many times before. It is 100% impossible.

In the end anyone wanting to get at the code of a site will be able to and the only people that are really being put out are people who might want a bit of a peak at the code of the page for ideas.

I would also be cautious about encrypting metatags as I'm not sure if that will interfere with their smooth running. Your friend would be better advised to not waste their time on this kind of thing but on making sure their selection of keywords is right and that they are really promoting their site as much as possible (and looking at customer/vistor satisfaction) as these will make more difference than stopping people getting at one's metatags.

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Hey, thanks again guys. I appreciate the response.

Karl

Karl www.AZProGolf.com
karl@azprogolf.com

Karl, search engines don't understand JavaScript and therefore if your friend decides to use one of these "encryptions" eventually he won't be listed on search engines anymore, because all those funky characters will just appear as junk to search engines...

What about ASP code... will a search engine spider an ASP page the same it would an HTML page? With that said, is there any preference or order for the following pages (for a spider crawling your site):

index.htm(l)
default.htm(l)
default.asp
home.htm

Karl

Karl www.AZProGolf.com
karl@azprogolf.com

All web pages appear the same to search engines as they appear in web browser. Indexing process usually begins from the root of web server, therefore, the first page that will be indexed is default page (how that page is called depends on web server itself). Oh, and one more thing, some search engines won't index dynamic pages (i.e. pages that accept parameters through URL), but that's another story...

ive seen before a site that when you did "view source" nothing came up, cant remember how it was done it was pretty smart, also I'd go so far as to say there is NO way , if your browser can read it someone else can by sifting though c:\win...\tempor~1
Also with those onrightclick-alert boxes, hit your right button and keep it down press space to ok the alert, release your right button and up pops the menu (usually).
using the browsers View=> Source it can usally be gotten or if theres a link to the page "save Target as".

in the end .. whats to hide ? why bother ? its just a bit of frustration for the guy who likes the way your rollovers work etc.. let them have it !

or actually , someguy was annoying me and asking me how I did bla bla bla and wanted to take bla bla , it wasnt a friendly person so I said , just rip it off my site ! My JS code was so messy he gave up after two minutes, that was an old icklepix design.

There's even an easier way to bypass those stupid no right click scripts, just press context menu button on the keyboard (located right from right windows button). This will work in any script that uses onmousedown event to check if right button was pressed. If the script uses new oncontextmenu event, pressing the key on keyboard won't bypass it...

Hiding HTML-code isn't possible, that's sure. But you can makes things more difficult for casual visitors: just add many (say: 100) linebreaks before your code starts, and put some faked error message on top, like <!-- SSI Error Message -- No Source Code available -->
Silly, but does the trick for most visitors (I found this idea on the german site http://www.ideenreich.com/trickkiste/tricks34.shtml )... but why hide the source code? The really tricky things often happen server-sided - no chance for the visitor to see.

GauGau

Just hit enter a load of times at the top fo yoru work bringing it down a page or 2 in notepad. that way when some views your source it will come out as a blank page.. most people wont think to scroll down ... you'd be amased on how many people it works on

I sometimes add

<!-- Plagiarize, plagiarize, yes that's why God made your eyes -->

to the top of my code, then insert a bunch of line breaks. I've actually gotten some emails about that.....