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how can i stop people from saving my page
Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 12:30 am
by EXDev
Hi,
Anyone know how can i stop people from saving my page? i'm not talking about javascript right click disable, cause people can use save as to download the whole page. i want it like
http://www.bn.com (barnes and noble) when people try to save the whole page, it will have an alert message saying "The web page could not be saved to the selected location."
Highly appericated if anyone can help
Thanks
Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 12:52 am
by Stoker
there is no way of doing that, as the nature of HTML is open and plain text.... and even if you used a javaapplet to decrypt something for view in applet only, there is always someone that will examine your applet and find your algorithms..
btw, barnes and noble did not prevent anything with my mozilla browser..
Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 7:02 pm
by evilcoder
yep, stopped nothing on konquer either

Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 8:26 pm
by patrikG
IE 5.5 without ServicePack 2 download it as well without problems.
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 2:08 am
by twigletmac
If you don't want people to save your page don't put that page on the Internet. There is no way that you can prevent this otherwise.
Mac
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 11:12 am
by pistolfire99
Try and make all your pages into flash files, this way they have very limited control on what they do, even after they download your page. pdf is another alternative.
My $0.02 ..

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 5:29 pm
by m3mn0n
Stoker wrote:
there is no way of doing that
That's a false statement. I've seen it done on a warez type site. I think it was with java. I e-mailed the owner asking him how but he wouldn't tell me. The rightclicking on the page was disabled along with the Tools > View Source menu and in Netscape it was the same case.
So it is possible but only an elite few know how to do it.

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 6:28 pm
by Stoker
As indicated by several others, it is not a false statement, it can't be done... Show us an URL and we'll show you the source (HTML)

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 8:01 pm
by volka
if there really should be no other way (hi, my beloved debugger

) then there is still wget

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 11:19 pm
by phice
So let's all agree that he can't hide his HTML source, without wasting hours working with Flash or Adobe PDF files to get what he wants.
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 5:56 am
by Gen-ik
You can sort of do it...
Use a simple Flash button to launch a pop-up window.
You can trigger JavaScript from Flash.. simply enter JavaScript code instead of linking to a URl..
for example Get URL "javascript:open.window('page.php','','options');"
No one can see the JavaScript you use inside a Flash movie.
The page in the pop-up window needs the Right-Click disabled so in the <head> of your pages add this line of JavaScript....
document.oncontextmenu = new Function("return false");
Don't forget to use the following when opening the pop-up window..
"menubar=no, toolbar=no"
That gives you a 'more' secure site.. but it's not bullet-proof.
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 5:59 am
by Gen-ik
Oromian wrote:
That's a false statement. I've seen it done on a warez type site. I think it was with java.
Try and find this 'holy-grail' of websites would you and let us know where it is...... cheers.
Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 6:35 pm
by Dave
I've seen this done on a phone logo's site, but I got around it by saving the target page from the page that linked to it.
As said above - if someone really wants what you have on your page, there is always a way and if people are anything like me, the more someone tries to block you, the more you'll try to get around it - generally just to see if you can.
Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 9:27 pm
by phice
If the window pops up in a small window without the address, etc, you can just press [F11] and i'll show the address bar in full-screen mode.