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so i was browsing around on < c certainsite > and boy do they have a LOT of good information so i decided that i wanted to print it out and read it while away from my computer cant remember what i did first but i know i wanted to copy and paste the text in to a notepad so i could cut out all the other unnessary stuff like ads and colors and just get down to the meat of things... when i tried to highlight the text i was unable to do it... so i just thought maybe i'll look at the source code and this is what is in the source code
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="robots" content="noarchive">
<title>The Page Title's Text</title>
<meta name="description" content="here is some description text...">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://www.example.com/lib/031025s.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="http://www.example.com/lib/031025p.css" />
</head>
<!-- ********************** End ************************ -->
<!--
Copyright 1999-2007 example.com. All rights reserved.
This web site is operated by .....
The articles on this website are copyrighted material and may not be reproduced,
stored on a computer disk, republished on another website, or distributed in any
form without the prior express written permission of example.com.
-->
so i think hmmmm that's weird... so i go to download the page/pages i want and i get an error and i look at the robots.txt file and this is what i see
Special Notice
Our site watchdog has detected an attempt to save one of our pages onto your local computer.
Such action is prohibited by the Example.com User Agreement. As a security measure, a temporary ban has been placed on your IP address.
For more information, please see the Example.com User Agreement. If you have any questions, please contact us via the site contact form.
Long story short... i think this is a very cool security feature and i need to know how its done...
can someone walk me through it please?
[edited by: tedster at 8:11 pm (utc) on Mar. 20, 2008]
[edit reason] switch to example.com [/edit]
I'm not sure how the second effect was accomplished, but I'd bet it is also a trick. No one can even SEE a web page on their screen without first downloading it from the server to their computer -- and that saves a copy in the computer's local browser cache.
how are they able to turn off the "select text" feature... you cannot highlight any of the text on their site...
also it looks like their site is protected from website rippers... how did they do that i wonder?
