Cant view source

[Michael Hill]

I saw a site that looked pretty good, but I could view the source.

2 questions:

1) how can I do the same for my site
2) any way to get around this?

Mike

[Sam Hughes]

Martin Jay <ma****@spam-free.org.uk> wrote in
news:R3******** ******@onenet.o rg.uk:

I don't think there is a fool-proof way to hide the page source. After
all, a browser will always need it to render the page.
You are of course correct; a user just has to do the algorithm that the
browser uses, stopping just short of renderence.
Some of the Javascript scripts that encode pages and display them with
document.write( )s are quite clever, and would probably stop most visors
seeing the source.
Most would be stopped by the fact that they're not Web authors and don't
care ;-)

Usually, such can have document.write( "<textarea> "); put up front, and all
the source code becomes revealed. If not, it's because a </textarea> is at
the beginning of the hidden source. Even then, the to-be-document.writte n
string can always just be parsed and have &lt; and &gt; substituted in.
<textarea> also works on blocking ads for some free webhosting services.
Of course not everyone allows their browser to run
Javascript scripts. Do you really need to hide the source, though? I'm
sure most, if not all, of us 'borrow' ideas and tricks from elsewhere.
Shouldn't we be willing to share our knowledge?

I wonder if the following is true:
If one thinks he can hide his HTML source, then his HTML source is not
worth hiding.

[Harlan Messinger]

"Michael Hill" <hi****@charter .net> wrote:

I saw a site that looked pretty good, but I could view the source.

2 questions:

1) how can I do the same for my site
2) any way to get around this?

Could you be more specific than "I could[n't] view the source"? Do you
mean:

1. You went blind.

2. The source appeared in white letters on a white background.

3. A view-source window came up but it was empty.

4. No view-source window opened.

5. The View Source command on the menu was grayed out.

6. Something else.

A couple of these are ridiculous, certainly, but the point is clear:
you want to ask why something happened, you have to be clear first on
*what happened*. Otherwise people can waste their time answering the
wrong question.

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[Mark Parnell]

On 11 Sep 2004 01:56:42 GMT, Sam Hughes <hu****@rpi.edu > declared in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html:

I wonder if the following is true:
If one thinks he can hide his HTML source, then his HTML source is not
worth hiding.

Also known as Froggie's Law: If you think you have to hide your source,
it's a sure bet you have nothing worth hiding.
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Hide_source

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Mark Parnell
http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au

[Philipp Lenssen]

Michael Hill wrote:

I saw a site that looked pretty good, but I could view the source.

Yeah, you can view the source of any web site. Unless you make a
screenshot of your site and publish only that. Then no one will be able
to view your source (however, you also got rid of many benefits of HTML
-- namely, that it can be flexibly interpreted by any client).

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[Neal]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:06:33 -0500, Michael Hill <hi****@charter .net>
wrote:

I saw a site that looked pretty good, but I could view the source.

You know, this sentence does make sense.

I've wandered into sites that looked OK, and then I viewed the source and
saw it was held together with duct tape and wax, and I was lucky to get
there with the right browser at the right size...

If only the author could have hidden that source! I would have been a
happier man.

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <Xn************ **************@ 130.133.1.4>, dated Sat,
11 Sep 2004 01:56:42, seen in news:comp.infos ystems.www.authoring.html,
Sam Hughes <hu****@rpi.edu > posted :

I wonder if the following is true:
If one thinks he can hide his HTML source, then his HTML source is not
worth hiding.

If one thinks he can hide his HTML source, then his HTML source needs to
be hidden, lest anyone else is naive enough to copy it.

Ask any policeman : much of what is hidden is hidden to prevent
incrimination rather than theft.

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