I am not sure I agree with your statement. If I choose to make my printer friendly page a graphic instead of a standard html table as long as it still prints fine you would have no recourse. About the only thing you could do is take your business elsewhere. Right?
-Randy Cameron Childress wrote: > Does this application contain financial data for the company? Are they > attempting to get access to their own financial information in order to > put it into QB and run their business? Your employer wants to prevent > them from doing this? This raises a ton of ethical and moral > questions. I know you are not the one making the call here, but > seriously, if a company I was doing business with was ACTIVELY > preventing me from gaining access to my own financial data things could > escalate very quickly. > > Having said that - if this company is actually doing something that > violates a legal agreement you have with them somehow, simply shutting > off access to the site should fix the problem. If this is data going > into QB, they much be authenticating to get to it (unless the financial > data is out in the open for all to see). Just shut them off and resolve it. > > -Cameron > > Jason Liebgott wrote: > >> Just started working on a legacy application built in CF5. It appears that >> one of the users is screen scraping printer friendly HTML output and moving >> the data into quick books in order to avoid paying for the export upgrade. >> >> Ideas I've had to muck up the data to stop the scraper: >> 1. random white chars that wouldn't be visible to the user in Printer >> Friendly, but would alter the values enough to make it a pain in quick >> books. Might have issues w/ printing. >> 2. random # of empty <TD> cells >> 3. convert text to .gif >> >> Has anybody dealt w/ this issue? What did you do? >> >> Thanks, >> Jason >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:284046 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
