Prevent doc copying when viewed via Browser - Tech Support Forums

jmichna · January 31st, 2003, 11:02 AM

I suspect I know that the answer will be, but let me lay this out and see if anyone has any ideas:

We have a corporate intranet, and we make engineering design guides available to engineers globally throughout our organization. Access to these documents is restricted via username/password challenge/response.

The design guides are normally MS Word, Powerpoint or Excel documents. Today, the engineer can view these docs via the browser, and obviously can do a "File... Save As..." to keep a local copy.

Some of these documents are extremely sensistive and could be quite valuable should an engineer quit and take copies with him to a competitor.

I've been challenged with making the information available to the engineer, via browser (corporate standard is IE 5.5 or later), yet preventing them -- somehow -- from saving electronic copies.

Any one have any ideas? Any techniques/areas to investigate?
TIA,
jmichna

nodnerb2 · January 31st, 2003, 11:11 AM

Hi,

I don't know the answer to this but am also interested in what can be done. I posted this so I can be notified when someone else replies.

Cheers

Nodnerb2

smurffart · January 31st, 2003, 11:16 AM

I don't really have an answer, but I think that it can probably be done. I've been on a number of stock image / illustration sites that will not allow you to right click and save as the image. When you try to do so it pops up a message saying that you have to pay to do this. So, if the files were in image format then it probably is possible.

puk · January 31st, 2003, 11:29 AM

Here to disable Save As

Here to disable Save Target As ( r/click mouse button)

some other fellow TIMO members will point you to other thechniques

barb2k · February 1st, 2003, 12:07 PM

Interesting.......I was wondering about that myself.

BobViper · February 1st, 2003, 01:01 PM

ALOHA
You can stop some of the people some of the time~But you couldn't stop me....................

Aloha

PartsMan · February 1st, 2003, 01:14 PM

They could probably save a "window image" or "screen image" but if the doc was several pages long, it would be an arduous task, but not impossible.

iNeb · February 1st, 2003, 01:19 PM

If you use javascript, they can just disbale it.

The file will just go into the temp folder so they will have it on their computer when the view it.

It is imposable, sorry. If it is online it can be stolen

Carl-cox- · February 1st, 2003, 01:31 PM

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Originally posted by iNeb

It is imposable, sorry. If it is online it can be stolen

Yeh copy and paste cant stop that can u ??

PartsMan · February 1st, 2003, 01:51 PM

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Originally posted by Carl-cox-

Yeh copy and paste cant stop that can u ??

Yes, but you can't stop the "printscreen" key attaching it to your clipboard .... then pasting it to ...... but it will be an image, not text.