how to disable view source

[punisher8214]

hi!!! can you help me plsssss... i just wanna know how to disabble the source code i mean not just when you right click the mouse. i have a code that well disabble when you right click your mouse, and i want the whole source code will disabble so that all my visitors cant view my source code.. anyone plsssssss i rely need your help...thanx

[jscheuer1]

Skinny on this is, don't bother. Honest folks won't steal it and those that are bent on acquiring it can, no matter what you do.

[cr3ative]

i have a code that well disabble when you right click your mouse

And I have Firefox. Therefore, I can right-click.

Anyway, the end of the story is:
Anything you put online is subject to being stolen, disassembled and analyzed.

If your HTML is so special you feel the need to protect it, don't put it online

cr3ative

[mattZ]

The source code compiler may be of use to you. You can find it at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/encrypter.htm. It is still possible to unscramble the scource code (and actually very easy if you know what you're doing,) but it is about as much as you can do.

[mwinter]

The source code compiler may be of use to you.

Please don't mention junk like that. It doesn't work and just makes a document reliant on scripting for no actual gain.

Mike

[taylorphoto]

WOW! ALL those responses and not ONE that told how to do what the person wanted. AMAZING!

(yes i know my response doesn't either. i was searching for the same thing he was and thought the "brilliant" (used VERY loosely) minds would have the answer. I WAS WRONG!)

[mwinter]

WOW! ALL those responses and not ONE that told how to do what the person wanted. AMAZING!

Did you consider that it's not possible to do what the person wanted? Evidentially not.

With the exception of the post from mattZ, the OP was given honest and accurate advice.

[I] thought the "brilliant" (used VERY loosely) minds would have the answer.

Insulting regular posters to this forum wouldn't seem a very intelligent thing to do. Especially if you want help from any of them now, or in the future.

I WAS WRONG!

No, you just don't recognise an answer when you read it.

Mike

[Twey]

1) You don't need to.
2) You can't.
3) Any attempts at doing so will more likely mess up your page than do any good.
4) This is what copyright is for. (OK, that's a bit of an extension to 1), but I felt it needed its own point.)

[execute]

For fun, although it isn't a good thing to actually hide javascript, i have -for fun- attempted to disable all access.
Heres what i did:
- made js files be parsed by PHP
- used MOD-Rewrite in htaccess to disable outside sources from connecting to my JS
- and obviously linked to an external JS rather than writing it in the html source.
- I also set headers to not cache the JS file

The following steps made it 99% impossible to steal a JS file, however, all a person had to do was go to the JS file, although since its parsed you see a blank page and you cant download it, you can view source it and see the code again (so it didn't technically work, but it would block out 90% of idiots who try to steal it).

Not only that, but when you have PHP engine parsing your JS file, you cause errors in your JS even when you set headers to disguise it, JS files seemed to break (so it didnt work good).

The only true way to disguise a JS file is to encrypt it using an encryption program. (it also saves space and compresses your JS files). So then only someone who has the decrypter can decrypt it.

BasicaLLY: If you put it online, there will be someone who can steal it ALWAYS, its impossible to hide anything, and in the WEB there is always a way to break/decode/hack anything, just depends on who bothers trying.

[Twey]

The problem with your JS file is probably that the Content-Type header was being sent as "text/html" rather than "text/javascript." A simple

<?php header("Content-Type: text/javascript"); ?>

at the top of your file should fix that.

- used MOD-Rewrite in htaccess to disable outside sources from connecting to my JS

How? The only way I know of to do this is using the Referer: header, which I certainly hope you wouldn't do as it would break your page for anyone behind a proxy or firewall that strips this header (and many do).