Much appreciated the response. I think its pointless to try and hide
it. oh well.

On May 10, 10:52 am, cd34 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do you mean protect the actual html that generates the site from being
> saved?  or protecting static content from being able to be hotlinked?
> or preventing scraping your site's content for resyndication
> somewhere?
>
> Basically, if it is published on the web, it can be saved.  Sites
> disable the right mouse-click with javascript, but, most people can
> use keyboard shortcuts or tell wget to use a useragent string.  You
> could enforce some sort of cookie/session mechanism to make it
> difficult for them to store urls to come back to respider, but, a
> smart fetch agent would just respider the site.  By preventing the
> content from being stolen, I'm guessing you don't want the search
> engine bots to hit the site either as they could cache the files, so,
> a robots.txt file with Disallow: *  would prevent the honest bots from
> spidering/caching the content.
>
> You might be able to replace render with some obfuscation function
> that perhaps minifies/obfuscates the html/css/js content.  Perhaps if
> you could rely on surfers having javascript, you could use ajax and
> dom js to generate the page.
>
> However, no matter what you put on the page, a browser has to be able
> to render it.  If a browser can render it, the content can be viewed.
> Even Firefox with the developer toolbar has 'View Generated Source' so
> that a page that contains quite a bit of javascript that modifies dom
> units can be seen.
>
> All of this and you might just end up making the site less usable for
> honest surfers.
>
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