I believe Cameron was questioning the morality of designing something like that instead of the technical issues.
Personally, I think that if I provide data to your company, I should be able to scrape it back if I'm already paying for your service. It's kind of ass-hatish to do what you are considering doing. However, I know it's not your decision to make. Just sayin. :) Randy Johnson wrote: > 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 >>> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:284048 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
