Disabling "scource"

[aznlurkerz]

I've seen on some webpages where, when accessed with IE, in the tool bar at the top, View>"Source" is disabled along with the Right-Click>"source". How is this done?

Also when pictures are loaded on a page as .jpg and when your right click on them and save they save as a *noname* and in the .bmp format only?

aznlurkerz

[no1_vern]

Hi Az, I have never come across any of those sites(guess Im lucky).

CAn you/will you post the site address? If not, go to the site yourself, left click on the page, then see if the View source menu item is greyed out.

[gothic]

Originally posted by aznlurkerz
I've seen on some webpages where, when accessed with IE, in the tool bar at the top, View>"Source" is disabled along with the Right-Click>"source". How is this done?

Also when pictures are loaded on a page as .jpg and when your right click on them and save they save as a *noname* and in the .bmp format only?

aznlurkerz

This is a IE-only annoyance and it's done in javascript.

If you find a page that does this, all you need to do is click up on View, and then Source.

Look in the HEAD of the HTML, and find the javascript. Basicly they are binding the mouse button to a popup, probably an alert()

[^hyd^]

technically, there's no way to stop a person from getting the source, unless the entire site is in flash. with a little searching in the "tif" (temporary internet files) you should be able to find the page and view it in any html editor, if you really wanted.

The browser has to download the page to interpret the html/javascript/vbscript for display in the browser.

in the tool bar at the top, View>"Source" is disabled along with the Right-Click>"source".

I've came across this once or twice too, but as mentioned, it should be in your "tif", and with the pages I saw this done on, the second time I went there, the view->source in both the toolbar and rightclick menus was re-enabled. Someone told me they were sure that the page included a dll that contained a function to disable the view->source feature in IE, but I'm not sure if it's true. I did some searching awhile ago and came up with nothing...

Also when pictures are loaded on a page as .jpg and when your right click on them and save they save as a *noname* and in the .bmp format only?

this sounds like a trick that someone on the forum mentioned awhile ago. First, make a table for the picture but put the picture as the background image, then, in the main cell of the table, put a transparent image, which would end up being overtop of the image. this way you can't right click and get the main image, just the transparent image overtop of it. but again, if you really want the image, it will be in your "tif" files...

a little trick that almost works sometimes to hide your code from people, is once the page is made, go to the first line of code in the page, and hold down the enter key for about a minute!!! this will put a whole pile of "emptyness" at the top of the page, making it appear as if the code is not there. but, if they notice that the scrollbar on the right, they might realise what's up and merely scroll down to view your source...

cheers!!

ps: as Gothic mentioned, maybe you can share these pages with us!!

[crouse]

http://www.crouse.ws/scrambledsource.html

This page shows a scrambled source code...... will give you a headache trying to decipher it...... pretty cool.... doesn't work with .shtml pages... and it requires you keep an "original" and an "encrypted" version..... otherwise it can be a real pain in the @$$ to try and figure out how to change something later.

[^hyd^]

oh right!! forgot about that method crouse!! that'll kill your eyes trying to read it!! lol

[^hyd^]

but... I just made a small page that took very little javascript to unscramble the code and place it in a textarea field, ready to copy... hehehehe

[aznlurkerz]

no1 : yes teh "source" options are both greyed out in right-click and view > source

as for where the page was it was a page on asianave or somthing like that, i came across it, i'll have to find it again, if i do i'll try and recreate it.

crouse : i rememebr seeing html like that, whats the trick to that, i could probably figure it out but yes, it hurts the noggin.

aznlurkerz

[aznlurkerz]

ohh yeah BTW, how do u access the temp internet files on WinXp i keep getting confused.

aznlurkerz

[crouse]

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/encrypter.htm

You can find the encrytion thing here........ if anyone wants too ?