How To Stop "save As", Need help from copying all my stuff

[Lightson]

First of all I want to point out that I dont mind people to look into my websites and get influnced and take some of the text or images it actually honours me. But when people just save my pages directly to their hard disk and change some logos and names and have basicly same pages i dont find it fair since i put a lot of effort in my pages and the worst was when somebody completly copied me and get one ranking higher than me without making any effort. I have seen some people stop this by not allow the "save as" function does anyone have any advices. I also now that there is a way to go around it but normally people who nows how to do that they are good enough to make their own websites so they dont need to directly copy my pages.

[mwinter]

I have seen some people stop this by not allow the "save as" function ...

I seriously doubt that you have. It's something that should be possible.

Mike

[Twey]

I seriously doubt that you have. It's something that should be possible.I think Mike meant it's not something that should be possible :) A small but vital typo.

[mwinter]

I think Mike meant it's not something that should be possible

Oops. :o Cheers, Twey!

Mike

[chechu]

Just read this thread (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14403); it will explain a lot.
It is impossible to hide codes, because all functions that you will see in the thread can be avoided by disabling JavaScript.

[tech_support]

I've seen someone disable 'Save As' before, but I don't remember the website. I swear.

[djr33]

Nah.

You might disable right click.
You might even disable the file menu. (I doubt it.)
But you can't disable copying from the cache.

And, there are a lot of fun little IE issues that you can exploit, but once you open the site in Firefox, no problem saving, etc.
In fact, even no right click scripts are like that frequently. That's funny.


Note this is looking at the most simple way to fix it.... there are many other ways... disabling javascript, creating a link to the page and right click save as through that and variations thereof, using another way of getting the data on the page, using PHP to grab the page from the server, print screen if it comes to it and surely other stuff.

[Twey]

In fact, even no right click scripts are like that frequently.Very frequently, due to Firefox' "Disable or replace context menus" checkbox in Edit->Preferences->Advanced....

[ItsMeOnly]

Well, there is one possibility to make that most difficult (in addition to some sophisticated no-right-clock code)- using

pragma: no-cache
And restricting content to be served only if valid Referring-URI header is sent.
Of course- again, anything like wget or teleport will prevail...

Unless you use javascript to open the content... but of course, here comes another IE bug that causes that precaution to affect valid requests- but made from inside javascript (like location.href or window.open)- it doesn't send the darn header (my gallery bails out on this to this day- started using cookie to prevent that).

[Twey]

Well, there is one possibility to make that most difficult (in addition to some sophisticated no-right-clock code)- using
pragma: no-cacheThe Pragma header, by design, is used to convey information that is non-vital and may have meaning to only one or a few user agents. Any user agent may, in perfect accordance with standards, choose to completely ignore any Pragma headers sent.

[ItsMeOnly]

The Pragma header, by design, is used to convey information that is non-vital and may have meaning to only one or a few user agents. Any user agent may, in perfect accordance with standards, choose to completely ignore any Pragma headers sent.
Yep, but- like I said- "let's do it as difficult as possible".

[Twey]

And don't forget that these all introduce many difficulties for the average user too. The no-right-click will just irritate people; the no-cache will increase page loading times considerably (and increase the load on your server, too).

[ItsMeOnly]

Yep, persoonally I don't like the idea of blocking anything- but if people do, Im helping with it (lol).

Personally, I just have taken care of server-side scripting, that is one (read: me), can open thumbnails from gallery on any site, but the full (size) picture can be opened only within a HTML wrapper (no matter specifying address ending with a jpg, png, etc).

Besides, yelled a few times at some guys that they have used my images without my permission publicly on forums- so what people think I'm a jerk (like I cared), but at least noone touches my stuff :-D