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View Full Version : How to stop plagiarism?! Help! firesapien 04-12-2003, 11:13 AM Hello, can anyone tell me how to stop people from viewing the Source Code for your webpages? As in you know, for Internet Explorer we can click on View then Source and we will have the source code for the webpage. In Lissa Explains It All, we only have the method of blocking people from viewing source through blocking viewing of document source via right click. Yea... But how to stop pple from viewing it through the View Source thingy? epolady 04-12-2003, 11:44 AM Simply put, you can't. There's a lot of methods of fooling viewers, but all in all there isn't a way. I'm sorry. It's a fact of life that all webmasters face. sebluver 04-12-2003, 12:20 PM You could disable the right click, and MAYBE they won't click the view>>source button at the top of the screen. Is viewing source on someone's page so you can use their link code bad? Because I do that, but just so I can change the link color and stuff. And I barely ever do... freakEgurl 04-12-2003, 02:11 PM You could try putting a bunch of fake source in comments between the head tags. It looks convicning. Or at least for those that are inexperienced in HTML. Experienced HTML users likley wouldnt steal your HTML .. They might steal yuou ideas though. Or you could put a bunch of blank lines befoe the <HTML> Tag to fool the person that there's nothing there and put in comments 'error Veiwing file' Or something. But So far, I, nor anybody else probabaly, havent found a way to stop people from veiwing your source. starlet 04-12-2003, 04:12 PM Originally posted by sebluver Is viewing source on someone's page so you can use their link code bad? Because I do that, but just so I can change the link color and stuff. And I barely ever do... I dont think theres anything wrong with viewing source, it helps people learn...you should never copy it though but i think that goes without saying! Theres no way to stop people viewing source, if the code is on the internet (which it needs to be to view your site) then people can get to it, simple as that. Cherchezlafemme 04-12-2003, 04:21 PM People are tricky and i doubt you can stop plajerism its all part of the natural web world!! Right now anyone can save a copyrighted site to their ownn computer. It's not right, but it happens! Just report them to their web host! Chris 04-12-2003, 06:52 PM Ignore all of the help above. There are ways to stop people from viewing your source!! As well as disabling the right-click, you could make your site full screen, which means that they cannot see the "File Edit View....." menu. To make it full screen, you will need to have an "Enter" page with a button on it. Here is the HTML for the button:- <script> <!-- function winopen(){ var targeturl="YOURPAGE.html" newwin=window.open("","","scrollbars") if (document.all){ newwin.moveTo(0,0) newwin.resizeTo(screen.width,screen.height) } newwin.location=targeturl } //--> </script> <form> <input type="button" onClick="winopen()" value="Open window"> </form> Or, a really cool trick is to encrypt your source. It make it VERY difficult for people to read, but it gives the same page as it normally would. Just go to the below URL to encrypt your source!!:- http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/encrypter.htm Good Luck!!! epolady 04-12-2003, 07:17 PM Ah, but when one encrypt's, it's easy to decrypt. Also i find that it's a big pain to encrypt it over and over every time you update your site. There are ways to decieve the viewer, but never a fool proof way of hiding your source. MaGiCSuN 04-12-2003, 08:20 PM simply go to Temporary Internet files, and voila, allt he pages you've visited these few hours are all there, with graphics and all. If you don't want to put your work at a risk, the my advice is to leave the idea of 'making a site' away and just don't start one. Risk is always there, so you must like to take it and to trust the people around you that visit your site daily or that ask you for something. and i agree with Starlet, viewing source is not harmfull. If people can't view any source then practically this forum wouldn't excist because many many people learned html via viewing sources. But stealing it, that's the point. You could do blocking the right click, that's a way to loose some 'stealers' because they are too lazy to go around it. But people that really want to get it do get it anywayz... there's nothing against it. love, Mirna MaGiCSuN 04-12-2003, 08:27 PM *sorry for posting twice, but the search took a bit longer then expected so i was outside the 5 minutes* also see this thread: http://www.lissaexplains.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=10767&highlight=plagiarism and these bunch of threads that where allready there about 'hiding source' http://www.lissaexplains.com/forum/search.php?action=showresults&searchid=59849&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending Love, Mirna Cherchezlafemme 04-12-2003, 09:55 PM chrisdb89 your very unaware of HTML, where there's a will there's a way. disabling stuff is simple for the expert user. everyone's site is vunerable no matter the circumstances! starlet 04-12-2003, 11:47 PM Originally posted by chrisdb89 <script> <!-- function winopen(){ var targeturl="YOURPAGE.html" newwin=window.open("","","scrollbars") if (document.all){ newwin.moveTo(0,0) newwin.resizeTo(screen.width,screen.height) } newwin.location=targeturl } //--> </script> Or they could just view source on that page, get the URL to the page thats opening full screen, type it into the address bar and view source. Xiphias 04-13-2003, 12:49 AM simply put, as everyone else said, there is no way to ensure your codes can't be copied zangerbanger 04-13-2003, 12:52 AM Perhaps we can just hope that there will be a way in the future.... Xiphias 04-13-2003, 03:04 AM Originally posted by zangerbanger Perhaps we can just hope that there will be a way in the future.... it certainly would help... I use this message after a recent dsicovery of the 403 error thing: <!-- 403 Error: Forbidden = You don't have permission to access / on this server. --> then enter a bunch of blank spaces before AND AFTER your html code |