HTML Guardian and SE's

[omegadm]

Has anyone used HTML Guardian (www.protware.com) or similar to encrypt html files?

I am wondering what the effect is on a search engine spider - my thoughts are that it will be a hinderance or even make the pages invisible. The program developers say they know of pages that are encoded but have high rankings, but that is all they would say. I am trying to get examples out of them.

Brian

[caine]

Encrypting HTML, but still crawlable pages - how?

the two are incompatible, unless your feeding the engines one thing though, viewing the encrypted pages as something else. a.k.a. Cloaking.

Software sounds interesting but i not aware of any encryption process, which is designed to stop everything from looking at HTML pages, except encryption cert-key holders.

Can't get my head around what they mean by a publically crawlable encrypted HTML?

[DaveAtIFG]

AFAIK, without a plugin or script, a browser can only display plain, unencryped HTML. I looked at the features page. It lists two different methods of encryption, one depends on a Java-enabled browser, the second on IE 5.0 or higher browsers, presumably ASP script.

It seems apparent to me that a visitor to an encrypted page will need to have Java and/or ASP enabled to decrypt a page. They will probably be served the script with their first page request.

I don't know of too many spiders that execute Java scripts or ASP scripts. ;) Stay away from this one!

[omegadm]

Thanks for the feedback guys - yes I think it is java/javascript based and relies heavily on IE5.

I am looking into protecting Intellectual Property and came across them - thought it was worth a post...