Thanks Rick,

I will need to distribute an IE client. I was hoping not to "have" to distribute a particular JS (JavaScript) file.

I don't know how a JS works - for example - is it all cached on the client's browser, or is it like the old PRG procedure files, where the "file" would be re-queried again?

My hope was that I could distribute the IE client and have the "HTML" reference this "particular" JS file on my server.

Can I look at a JS file associated with the content of a web site. I know I can view source for the HTML, but was not aware that their may be a way to expose the contents of a JS file. How is that done?

Thanks



>You can't truly protect a JavaScript file because ultimately the browser needs to be able to run interpret the JavaScript to execute it and that means plain text.
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>The best way to 'encrypt' JavaScript is to strip out all white space and have a tool obfuscate the code. There are tools you can find for this online.
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>Just like anything - protection is never perfect and people who really want it can get it... I would question whether there's something really unique about what you're doing anyway. Most likely the JScript file contains some UI logic and frankly I doubt that anybody will care about that enough to even bother to look at the file... It's just not worth worrying about this sort of thing.
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>Aren't you one of the people pushing Open Source ideas in the first place? Isn't that against the whole concept in the first place? <g>
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>I would like to distribute an application that includes an IE client (HTM and JS pages). It also includes a server.
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>>There are also JavaScript files (JS) that would be part of the "client" module. Most of the JavaScript functions are offered in a JavaScript function object container that uses an IE documentID as the parent reference.
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>>1) Once a JavaScript file is referenced (href), my assumption is that is is cached on the browser's desktop and does not use a "refresh" cycle to "re" address the JS file - Is that true?
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>>One of the JS files is very special. I would prefer not to distribute it, but instead, have the client [module] reference this [particular] file on my server.
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>>I am used to using relative addressing on the server drives. Could I deliver my IE client module such that "one" of the JS files would be located [and addressed] on my server?
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>>Would I use a full href URL for that?
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>>Thanks