Almost no matter what you do, there are ways, that anyone who wants to can view source code (html) code displayed on the internet.
Even if you disabled the save as button. (which can be done) and rightclick. and so on.

The browser internal cache will save the page, and then its just a matter of the other person wanting your code to open the cached version of your site, with notepade, and see what you did.

HTML is just words, there is not way to compile html, browsers read source code, not compiled code, so if its going over the and designed to be viewed by a browser, by defination its going to be in html. and thus, going to be readable.

ASP is a scripting language which sits in an HMTL like page, with special tags, which are parsed out to html when sent over the net, Think of it like dbase commands. like set textmerge.

? date : +<>

and the html - would show date: 08 25 01 && this is in FOX, not ASP. but the logic is there.


Not the internal command which generated it. All someone can view, no matter what is everything which is displayed, by the browser, by using ASP / PHP Jsp or any other scripting source, how the html is generated is hidden, becuase the web server, generates the html, based on the underlying script.

So... your sql statments, would be hidden, and the output is just something that would be readble.

Is your concern, .. and a very comman one that your customers will - pirate your html code, and use it , copy it, and not pay for your work..? or is your Screen design- html design so unique that you are afraid, that someone else will take it and use it for free. ?


one last thought, if you generate a popup, without the standard toobar, the menu to enable save as is gone.... (but that doesnt solve the internal cache problem.)

So long long story. If you publish it, your html is public, and there is not anything you can do about it. Your code, which generated the html, can remaine secure. using scripting to generate, the html.

Bob Lee



>Bob Hi,
if I have a way to DISABLE the "View ... Source", then disable "File ... Save As" ... and so on disable all the ways which will display my source code, then I think (source code is secured), don't you thnik so.
>
>BR
>Ahmad

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