Encryption?

What can I do to stop site ripping?

[rmphoto]

I have been having a problem with people ripping off my site within the last few months as it's grown. I am just finishing up a redesign and I really do not want it getting ripped off becuase... well its really nice, and I put alot of work into it.

I know there are encryption methods but I can only assume bots will not be able to read through an encrypted html file. Next, I heard about people encrypting thier css file.. but anyone ripping off the site can still call for it in the html, they just cant read it.

So what can be done? Does anyone know of any methods to prevent site ripping? Ill try anything!

[thecoalman]

None that I'm aware of that will actually work. Most that I've come across use javascript to decrypt the "encrypted" html but this is a easily reversed. It will also make your site unusable for anyone that has JS disabled and make it unreadable to bots as well.

I haven't researched it but I'm sure there are methods for really encrypting material but that would require a client side program so they could view the material.

Basically if you want to make your site available to the widest audience and bots there is nothing you can do.

If they are ripping your entire site do search for bot traps. The basics of a bot trap is you create a link in the HTML that a user is not going to see and deny the URL in robots.txt . Anything following the link is going to be a bot or site ripping program, the script the link goes to can then ban the IP through various methods.

[Monkey]

Never tried it (since no has paid me to develop it), but could develop a web service to store formats and use an ASP page to retrieve the info.