How To Create A Copy Proof Webpage?

Sometimes I found something interesting on a webpage and hope to make a memo. Thus I will try to soft copy. Then I marking a quote, and the right click my mouse for laughing the menu. Sometime an warning box will show up to tell me that no right click is permitted here. It's cool! I hope to do it also, but I don't have any idea here. Could anyone teach me this? But this limitation won't be effect, I can just use the hotkey ctrl+P to copy it.However, the hotkey ctrl+P won't work all the time. Some webpage does not permit you to quote any word in their important content. Of course, no hotkey copying can be make. That is more cool. As described above, can anyone teach me that?Moreover, sometimes I hope to save the whole page, but there is a error message about "This page can be saved. Do you still want to do it? procced? or Cancel?". If I proceed, I get nothing but a blank webpage with nothing I want. How to do it?If you know these secrets, please share your precious experience here. Thank you.

Edited July 31, 2005 by microscopic^earthling (see edit history)

Disabling right click is useless. It just makes visitors feel threatened and plus, if you really want to rip from their site, just view source.

Yes, basically if you put up a webpage for the public, it's available to be copied. Unless you really know how to secure it (possibly using PHP or other methods), users will be able to copy the webpage without any major problems.

 

If you still want to know how they do it, then here it is.

 

To disable right click, there are many ways to do this. See these two just as examples:

 

CodeLifter

Angel fire site

 

I'm not exactly sure about the printing part. But from what I found, other programs can do this. For example, take a look at HTML Encryptor. It's not free though. No need to buy it though since it's most likely not fool proof anyway.

 

You should be able to save that whole page if it's not using PHP or some other server side languages for the webpage. Try this out and see if it works (should work if it's just a plain HTML webpage with the above simple methods):

 

1. Go into Internet Explorer or whatever browser you are using.

2. Go to View->Source.

3. A text editor (Notepad usually) should open up.

4. Save that file with a .html extension.

5. Double click on that new file you saved and it should be that webpage.

 

It may be distorted sometimes due to the fact that you didn't download all the required files associated with the webpage (for example, the images if it has any).

 

The method above should work most of the time if it's a normal HTML website with those simple restrictions they put on the user. But if it doesn't work, I know of another tricky method.

 

Since you looked at the website already, theoretically, it should have been cached in your browsers history. So just go there and look for the website. If you want, just go directly to that history (internet temporary files) folder and copy that file over to your desktop or another folder.

Using view source works and you can always just highlight the stuff by either left clicking while holding the left button down or holding shift while using the left right up or down cursor keys and then go to edit and press copy which puts the content on your clipbaord and pasting it into an empty document (notepad or and other editor) and you have it minus any formatting, you have to do that yourself.

But sometimes, when using Internet Explorer, i can't view the HTML source code of the page I'm viewing at all. Don't tell me that there's also a way to even prevent the user from viewing the HTML source code of the page?

But sometimes, when using Internet Explorer, i can't view the HTML source code of the page I'm viewing at all. Don't tell me that there's also a way to even prevent the user from viewing the HTML source code of the page?

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Are you sure it's just a plain HTML page? I know some server side languages have the ability to do this. Sometimes you just see a few lines of code and nothing else.

 

When you say you can't view the source, do you mean that it can't be viewed or just that the View->Source won't work (nothing opens up)? If something opens up and you see a blank page, make sure you scroll down (if there is anything more down there). Some of these webmasters who want to hide their code, may skip a couple hundred lines down so that it can fool the average user who tries to see their source code.

Server-sided languages can't hide the code from you. Client-sided ones can. With server-sided, what you see in the source is what you get in the browser. With client-sided languages, the code can be edited to change the appearance of the page without the source changing too.Anyway, back on topic, if you want to skip the warning dialog when right-clicking, do the following, it's a really old trick:1. Right click and hold; Dialog should appear2. Left click the "OK" button to close the dialog3. Release Right clickThe right-click menu should come out. If another dialog pops up when you release the right click, close that dialog and the right-click menu should then come out.

I would like to mention Client Side Active Agents , like Flash , AJAX and Java (applet). They can be used to hide incoming souce. One thing is for sure that if some thing is being displayed on system ..it can be copied eventually...but it becomes difficult if you have client side script. I wonder if there is away to block even screenshots of on screen things (some kind of virtual display via java ..which shows blank in a screenshot)

i dont know a lot about this but dissableing right klick is pretty usless. first of all because some browsers just ignore that bit of code or something like Opera for example.

You mean creating fully JAVA or flash sites? Like for instance nickelodeon.com? That site is hard to copy since it's almost all flash, but it also makes it noobish, In my opinion, flash is not supposed to be used this way.Generally, as someone else already said, the more you prevent them from ripping you off, the more they will try to. And it's also VERY irritating if someone wishes to print your site, or bookmarking it.

Um... You guys teach me a lot. Thank you.Let's make this thing simple. How to make up a page which can't be copied and be saved?

I program "HTML Cipher" work perfectly. It can add the java script codes for me. The java script can disable right click menu, disable text selection. It can also add a lot of blank lines in the top of my html codes. It almost includes all you guys mentions.However, I find that the page can be saved. I remember sometime I try to save some webpage in IE, It will prompt me that this page can be save. If I continue, I can find the file is a garbage, and the page is not the original page. This is what I most hope to know. How to make it possible?

CopyAll is a good program but i don't kniw where to get it

Well, as whoever said, a "foolproof" way is to do it all in flash. Won't be too easy to steal then. But really, if someone is determined to get your content theres really no way to stop them. You can disable right click, you can page down 100s of lines, you can encrypty it .. but if someone wants it, they will get it. The cold hard truth. Same with images, I've heard of people going through all sorts of elaborate methods to protect 'em, but all it takes is a "Print Screen" and those are wasted.The web has good properties and bad. Stealing is extremely easy, so you just gotta suck it up and forget about it. Add a copyright notice at the bottom - sometimes thats enough to deter a thief.

I suggest you to use php or like somebody already said flash. My sites are using some php and you cant see the source of it. Only the server are available to read your source.