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I have found:
HTML Encryption Utility
Protect your valuable source code and data with
your very own HTML Encryption Software!
on the
RLROUSE directory
This is a desktop application that you can download. However, I am having a really stupid problem with it - it will not let me paste into the HTML box. So this means that i have to write the code in the box - cannot paste already written code into the application. Not sure if it is just my set up that doesnt allow this or it is an intrinsic feature of the application.
Anyway - so am looking for other html encryption possibiliteis. FREE ones.
MAny thanks,
There are programs out there which can, at best, obfuscate the HTML. There is a cost to that, however, which includes severly reducing or eliminating the possibility for the page to be indexed by a search engine, serious cross-browser bugs, much slower load times and impossible maintenance. Of all the obfuscating programs I've seen, there is not one which takes more than a couple of minutes to "break" and reveal the source.
With HTML, not only there is no way to "protect" it, there is also nothing to protect. Recreating a layout is trivial, so your source code has very little intrinsic value. The real value lies in the server-side scripting and page generation, and that is generally very well-protected.
Obfusication may be good enough for me.
Although I am a bit concerned about the speed and google ranking implications. But would still like to play around with these tools if at all possible.
With google ranking - if I was to leave all the text shown on the web page unobfusicated in the HTML file - so that just the tags etc. are obfusicated - would this still cause problems with google?
However, if I save the webpage to my desktop and then change its extension from .html to .txt - then I can view the source code in Notepad.
How do they do this? Would this kind of thing cause any problems with google?
You can't stop people viewing/saving/copying your HTML or images. If you have something that precious then don't put it online. At best you could serve the whole site through Flash or Java but that has it's own problems.
As I said in my previous message, encryption just can't work - and any script or service which says the contrary is lying. There is no way to "protect" your source code - Javascript right-click blockers are an annoyance at best, and usually completely ineffective - there's nothing stopping you from selecting "View Source". If you write out the page in Javascript it will disappear completely from every search engine on the web, and break for a sizeable proportion of any visitors you have left.
This is the deal you get when building a website. Your HTML, CSS and Javascript source code is visible to all - and so is that of every other site. If you're not happy with that, then don't publish the site. The choice is yours.
Spend your time more profitably - e.g. relaxing with a pint.
Kaled.
