Hiding Source Code

@webworldxJun 19.2005

I just read the sticky, but thought it might also be worth pointing out there are some programs available on the net that encode the page by taking all your text and changing the charset of it. While it’s not foolproof (and probably not recommended for everyday usage of sites), and could be decoded if you had a program to change from one charset to another, it is possible to confuse a large percentage of people and stop them stealing your stuff ?

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@CharlesJun 19.2005 — #It is interesting to note that even with that sticky we still get plenty of people asking how to hide the source code. Only once have we had somebody ask how to break the encryption. Everybody else manages to break them without any help.

@felgallJun 19.2005 — #Using Netscape 7.0 and selecting "Save As" from the "File" menu you don't need to worry about how to break the web page encryption because the browser does it for you by saving a decrypted version of the page. You can't get much easier than that for decrypting ANY web page and anyone who has a copy of that version of Netscape can do it with no effort on their part. Any decryption method that takes more than 10 seconds is doing it the hard way.

What I can't understand is how people can justify charging up to $200 for web page encryption software.

@webworldxauthorJun 19.2005 — #I completely agree with you; $200+ is a stupid price, and with Charles above. I didn't know about Netscape, does it save the page in the user's charset, or will it keep it as whatever it downloaded it as? I can't find the exact website where I saw this program from, but it converted everything on the page into a charset that wasn't humanly readable, but still rendered properly on the page.

I've read through the sticky too, and believe too that if you don't want someone downloading your content, you shouldn't put it up in the first place. But this program was different from all the usual Microsoft Script Encoder or javascript encryption that i'd seen before, and thought i'd just point it out to see your thoughts on it. Shame I can't find where I got it from though, heh.

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@felgallJun 20.2005 — #If the "decryption" Javascript in the web page uses document.write to decode the page content and write it to the screen then Netscape 7.0 writes the output from the document.write as part of the file that it saves immediately after the script tag.Since this would be in whatever charset that the page is set to display in it should normally be readable.

AOL appear to have corrected this "bug" in Netscape 7.1 so it only works with Netscape 7.0, of course you can always use a view source bookmarklet to achieve the same result as long as the web page doesn't use frames and doesn't block opening popup windows.

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