andreasfriedrich - 5:01 am on Nov 13, 2002 (gmt 0)

Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com], garwk.

Well, I guess itīs a tradeoff between security on the one hand and usability on the other hand.

If you use a JavaScript function to generate URLs on the client side you will shut out all users with Javascript turned off. And you would still need a way to make your site accessable to the SE spiders. Unless you use IP based cloaking for that a user would still be able to pose as some SE spider.

While the .htaccess approach has its shortcomings Iīm still not convinced that a client side JavaScript solution would be any better.

I guess just like you canīt prevent people from copying a book you cannot prevent them from copying your website. The only thing you can do is make it harder for them.

Andreas