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How can i hide my html code on my website? when browsing to it using IE,i can click on View source and see all my html code.
Is there anything i can install on my server to hide my site's html code?
Thanks
Is there anything i can install on my server to hide my site's html code?
Thanks
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I am not sure but i think there are some Code encrypting programs. If you can find one, i am sure you will do what you want.
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In a word; No.
HTML is delivered to users as 'source code', which the user's browser then interprets. There is nothing you can do to protect HTML code; except trying to enforce your copyright if it's stolen.
Also, you can't easily 'scramble' or obfuscate HTML code as you would with other types of code; because even subtle changes will often have some visible effects.
The best you might get, is encrypting the page, saving it somewhere on your server; and responding to requests with a blank page that runs a Javascript function to collect, decrypt and display the page content.
But, as you can't encrypt Javascript programs either, and since you'd have to send a link in the page to a program that can collect and decrypt your pages; it's gonna by like holding sand in a sieve...
Still, you might be able to do some funky business at the server to hide the Javascript code by means of checking the referer in an HTTP header... so that only your pages can link to the JavaScript code. This still has drawbacks; some browsers might let a user see post-JS source code ( and all browsers have to download the code, and most cache it somewhere ); and it's going to greatly increase the loading times for your pages; and the pages' contents will be totally indeterminable by a search engine spider.
HTML is delivered to users as 'source code', which the user's browser then interprets. There is nothing you can do to protect HTML code; except trying to enforce your copyright if it's stolen.
Also, you can't easily 'scramble' or obfuscate HTML code as you would with other types of code; because even subtle changes will often have some visible effects.
The best you might get, is encrypting the page, saving it somewhere on your server; and responding to requests with a blank page that runs a Javascript function to collect, decrypt and display the page content.
But, as you can't encrypt Javascript programs either, and since you'd have to send a link in the page to a program that can collect and decrypt your pages; it's gonna by like holding sand in a sieve...
Still, you might be able to do some funky business at the server to hide the Javascript code by means of checking the referer in an HTTP header... so that only your pages can link to the JavaScript code. This still has drawbacks; some browsers might let a user see post-JS source code ( and all browsers have to download the code, and most cache it somewhere ); and it's going to greatly increase the loading times for your pages; and the pages' contents will be totally indeterminable by a search engine spider.
Last edited by MattEvans; Apr 19th, 2007 at 10:35 am.
Plato forgot the nullahedron..
If you want to encrypt it, go to designerwiz.com.
Then go to js code makers, amd it's on the bottom of the page under security
Then go to js code makers, amd it's on the bottom of the page under security
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Why do you want to do this? It sounds very selfish to me.
You are not going to hide any of the other files on your site that way. There are programs which can read your web directory.
The whole purpose of the web is openness. Don't try to defeat that.
I do know ways of hiding email addresses from robots, yet leaving them visible to users.
You are not going to hide any of the other files on your site that way. There are programs which can read your web directory.
The whole purpose of the web is openness. Don't try to defeat that.
I do know ways of hiding email addresses from robots, yet leaving them visible to users.
Last edited by MidiMagic; Apr 23rd, 2007 at 1:54 am.
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Is there anything i can install on my server to hide my site's html code?
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You are not going to hide any of the other files on your site that way.
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If the file is used to render a website, it can't be hidden from the user. The browser needs the source code itself to do the rendering, and so it can always display it to the user.
There is no binary file in HTML as there is with other programming languages.
You can make some files private, but that means that nobody except you can access the files. They can't be used to render a web page on someone else's computer..
Since most HTML code is a straightforward solution to the wanted layout, there is probably no intellectual property in the source code anyway.
There is no binary file in HTML as there is with other programming languages.
You can make some files private, but that means that nobody except you can access the files. They can't be used to render a web page on someone else's computer..
Since most HTML code is a straightforward solution to the wanted layout, there is probably no intellectual property in the source code anyway.
Last edited by MidiMagic; Nov 25th, 2007 at 3:53 pm.
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If you want to HIDE proprietary code from the users, try developing the site in ASP or ASP.NET, but as MidiMagic stated, the HTML MUST be visible for the browser to interpret.
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if you know any coding in css that would work to because all of your formating can be linked to an external style sheet that nobody knows the properties of.
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