Disable or Save As - web page protection

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Disable or Save As - web page protection

Albon

How do I generate "the web page you are trying to save may not....] to prevent surfers from archiving web page?

PeOfEo

you cant prevent people from saving a web page. You can mess around in js, you can prevent right click, but everything you try will be useless because we can still get your images and your source code. You cannot disable stuff like that on all browsers, infact its hard to stop someone from getting that data in even ie because of the fact that the user has to download your web page for his browser to read the code... all of your code ends up in his cache which he can just go into and look at. Quit trying to protect your client side source code and images... its impossible.

Albon

I just wanted something to generate the alert " The web page ......"
when the use the "save as" from IE menu bar so as to place some
kind of deterrant as I have recieved from some web sites.

the_tree

Well it might be possible with some nasty IE only script, but even then I doubt it. You'd do a lot better just to have a copyright warning in your footer and leave it at that, otherwise your just getting in the way of letting your visitors use thier browser.

felgall

Even if you purchase a $200 program to encrypt your web page anyone can still view the decrypted source using nothing more than a web browser in under 15 seconds.

Albon

I must solve this issue brb

Zohar_Amihud

function click() {
if ((event.button==2)) {
alert("WARNING Text Here");
}
}

</script>

the_tree

Zohar Amihud wrote:
<script language="JavaScript">

I severly hope that you actualy think that'd work. Considering that it's already been explained why it wont work.

felgall

The only solution that stops people from being able to save what you have placed into a web page is to put the page into a password protected directory on your site and don't give them the password so that they can't access the page. Only pages that can't be accessed by someone cannot be downloaded by that person.

Once someone views a web page they already have a copy of the page on their computer that the browser made in order to display the page.

Albon

Try saving this web page from the ie menu

http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,2533,a=124300,00.asp

does anyone know whow to generate such an alert message

Yes or No
Albon

Robert_Wellock

I got no message and saved it… I use Firefox 1.0.3 and even if you use M$ IE you could disabled JavaScript and a cache page would be downloaded on your PC anyway.

It's because the page isn't marked up correctly the webmaster has probably never heard of Web Standards it's a UA issue and if you saved as just HTML in IE you won't get that error message.

the_tree

I didn't have any touble saving that page in IE or FF, whatever I saved it as.

Stephen_Philbin

I did a whole load of right clicking on that page. "Adblock this advert", "Adblock this advert", "Adblock this"..

Plenty of adserver addresses there for blocking. It had one of the best of all to block too: ad.doubleclick.net With all the right clicking I did on that page I'll have wiped out about 65% of the adverts I was ever likely to see! Thanks for the link.

96turnerri

Robert Wellock wrote:
I use Firefox 1.0.3

egh?

poiuy

Where did you get Firefox 1.0.3? I thought 1.0.2 was the latest...

Also where is the Cache in Firefox? I can't find it.

sgrkadam

Dear Friends

            I read all the stuff over disabling save as option but still I haven't got the actuall code if any of u know please send me up 

            thank you

with regards
sgrkadam

Kravvitz

The short answer is that you can't stop a determined person from saving your page.

Firefox's Cache is located in the Privacy section of the Preferences.

1.0.6 is the latest version of Firefox at the time that I'm posting this.

96turnerri

sgrkadam wrote:
Dear Friends
            I read all the stuff over disabling save as option but still I haven't got the actuall code if any of u know please send me up 

            thank you
with regards
sgrkadam

you are looking for something that cannot be found.

WoD

Man who try squeeze water out of stone too hard end up getting water out of hand.

I have no idea how this relates to anything, but if anyone asks this question again I'm going to go supernova in a giant ball of pure nova-hot rage and obliterate the universe. Some people would call that harsh, but I don't honestly think it deserves to exist if humanity is all it can come up with.

sgrkadam the simple reason why you can not find an answer to your question is because there isn't one. Disabling funamental functions of browsers is a security concern above all else, and a bloody nuisance for any user who wants to use those functions for legitimate purposes.

Any casual save is hardly going to do you any harm, and anyone determined to save your content will do so no matter what you try. You might as well try and protect the air you're breathing by frantically waving your hands in circles and gathering up the air molecules.

If you're that determined, you could also have your site spawn a new window for your content with all the menus removed. Then you can laugh maniacally as the determined save-as monster tries to find the menu!

96turnerri

WoD wrote:
If you're that determined, you could also have your site spawn a new window for your content with all the menus removed. Then you can laugh maniacally as the determined save-as monster tries to find the menu!

that would take me all of about a second to break, if not less.