Prevent Saving Web Page

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How do I prevent someone who accesses a web page from being able to save or
copy the page?
 
I ahve been to web sites where the save function was grayed out and I could
not with the edit funtion, so there must be some way. Also, I have visited
sites where ther was a picture or something which could not be saved. so
there must be a way to provide this kind of security.
 
You can add scripts to your page that will prevent certain ways of obtaining
the information. Search this newsgroup for similar threads as the question
has been asked and answered countless times.

But, Tom is right. Once it's in the browser cache, the user has all the
information they need.

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Tom Pepper Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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| I ahve been to web sites where the save function was grayed out and I
could
| not with the edit funtion, so there must be some way. Also, I have visited
| sites where ther was a picture or something which could not be saved. so
| there must be a way to provide this kind of security.
|
|
| | > Don't put it on the web!
| >
| > You can't. The page is already on the user computer when they view in
| their
| > browser, so it they want to keep, they got it.
| >
| > --
| >
| > ==============================================
| > Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
| > WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
| >
| > FrontPage Resources, Forums, WebCircle,
| > MS KB Quick Links, etc.
| > ==============================================
| > To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
| > http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
| >
| > | > > How do I prevent someone who accesses a web page from being able to
save
| > or
| > > copy the page?
| > >
| > >
| >
| >
|
|
 
Provide a URL of one of those secure sites and we can e-mail you the HTML
and graphis that the page is using. Honestly.

Those methods may make it difficult to copy/save things, perhaps even
obscure it from casual visitors. But anyone with a little knowledge of how
the web works can get around these methods.

The fact is that anything that you put online _must_ be downloaded to the
vistitor's browser cache before the browser can actually display it. What
that means is every html, graphic, javascript, css or other type of file are
already on their hard drive. You may block the 'easy to use' tools within
their browser, but if they want your stuff, they can just open up the cache
folder on their drive and copy it.

Also, the common 'security' methods out there rely on JavaScript. Many
users disable JavaScript so they don't have to look at all the pop up
windows. Relying on JavaScript for security is like locking the front door
of your house but leaving the backdoor unlocked and wide open.
 
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