Wondering How To Hide Your Source Code?

I'm thinking no. Flash can be decompiled, some "no right-clicks" you can just use the Windows hover caption or hold Ctrl and click sometimes. And if you really want the graphic, you could just hit Print Screen and crop it down for yourself or see if the image is in your Temp Files.



I think that if the know how to view the source, they're probably smart enough to know that those redirect sites have the original URL in the source. Also, I have a nice Firefox add-on that has a bunch of HTML tools, view soure, hide images, show image URL's, etc.

http://chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/

I'm sure that would force it's way through, or if nothing else just slip right past their scripts. Plus you can always go to File>Save Page As... and then open it in Dreamweaver or even notepad if you're hardcore.

 

 

 

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I agree with Ninja Munky:
What your browser shows is somewhere on your computer. And therefore you can't hide it from a good user. even if you find some complicated methods there will be methods against it.

And why should you want that? They can copy your text, even if they have to retype them, they can copy your images, even if they have to take screenshots.
And your HTML and JS code cannot be so famously good that there is any reasonable explanation for putting so much work in protecting it. It does not contain secret data and anything else can be rewritten. it aint no creative work, it's just some tags. that's the point: theres no point in protecting your sourcecode.

my opinion so far,
ruben

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If you simply use PHP as your source the only parts of it that can bee seen are those that PHP echos or prints as HTML, basically the page source you are viewing is just HTML that is how all browsers are able to render the page but you could have all kinds of HTML code going on with included files and the actual main php that will never be seen. You simply can not hide HTML or the echoed result of HTML generated by PHP or Perl or any script.

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Houdini, that's not the point, hiding sourcecode is usually used to prevent people ripping off other peoples layouts and designs.
Also, there are some javascript sourcecode scramblers that can give a certain degree of safety against most of the people who try to rip off. They work like this:

the entire website is put in one string, that string is then encrypted by some kind of encoder. The encoder puts a decoder (java script) and the string into a html file. So if you check the source you only see a javascript code and some encrypted string, most people stop there.

The thing is, isn't there any plugin available for FireFox that somehow shows the output of the javascript in the source. That would be possible wouldn't it? All you need is a javascript interpreter that displays the output.

Side note.
Most people don't appreciate encrypted site like that which will result in a low visitor number.

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But this is merely obfuscation not hiding.

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Well, I can't see why I'd even want to hide my source code. Besides, when they take the code, the'yd have to modify it, otherwise it's basically a mirror of your site...once they modify the code, it's not your code anymore, so what's the big deal?

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