It depends on what and why you want to protect.
I've downloaded sites with so called java and javascript protection with
ease. The easiest ones are IE specific. Just use a different browser.
To protect content, it depends on what needs protecting. For a website
that has been commissioned, I usually post a full color lo-res comp (to
show colors) followed by bw pages to prove that the site was done and
needs to be paid for. This stops the customer from getting someone
cheaper to cut up the site.
If you want to protect files or images, keep the files outside of the
web directory and stream them to the browser based upon session
variables. That way they have to visit the page to get the content.
If you want to protect what you're serving, you may need to think of
using a custom built client app similar to VNC. That way only screen
shots can be captured.
Jonathan Hohle wrote:
> when someone visits your web page, they have downloaded it. the only
> thing saving the web page (or file associated with a web page) does is
> move it from their web cache to a directory they've specified. So
> like Ken said, the only way not to get someone to "download" your
> content is to not post it at all.
>
> if you're worried about images, there's always watermarks.
>
> jon
> <><
>
> On Dec 3, 2004, at 11:45 AM, Ken Bowley wrote:
>
>> Oh God... this is the reason I tend not to pay attention to this list
>> very often. But since I have been so shocked by blatent ignorance to
>> actually get myself to reply, I will attempt to answer.
>>
>> To the best of my knowlege, there is no special tag in (X)HTML that
>> tells the browser to not download and display files from a web
>> server. You can add some javascript code to a page to disable
>> printing, and while you are at it, you better use javascript to
>> display the code to display the content to help prevent someone from
>> turning off javascript and still getting to the content.
>>
>> Better yet, don't post the content on a web server at all.
>>
>> On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Fritz wrote:
>>
>>> I have a quick question that perhaps someone in PLUG knows
>>> the answer to.
>>>
>>> Is there anything in (X)HTML, a special tag perhaps, that
>>> will protect content? That is, instruct the browser to not
>>> allow "save" and "print" functions on this page.
>>>
>>> I realize that this would just be rudimentary protection
>>> since "screen capture" programs could be used to get around
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Fritz Kolberg
>>
>>
>> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=[The Realm of Darkness]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= O-
>> Ken Bowley johann@trod.org
>> AKA: Lord Johann http://www.trod.org
>> -=-=-=-=-=[ Linux, the choice of the GNU generation ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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>
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