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Topic: Protect web content

Posted By: webdevelopa
Subject: Protect web content
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 7:50pm

Hi All,

I am a web developer and I am lately becoming fairly security conscious.

So three questions for you and any help appreciated.

1)I have my hesitations about my web code being revealed to everyone through the "view page source" feature of web browsers. Apparently the source review may reveal quite a few hints that affect security. Is there a way to prevent people from seeing this?

2)Being a web developer (especially PHP) I would like to know how I can restrict my programs to run on specific domains only. In this way if someone steals my code he can not deploy it on his server.

3)check if activeX or java is enabled before running. These two things will prevent my code from running on browsers that have not got specific features enabled (without which my web program goes mad...).

Thanks for your help all

peter

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Posted By: nostoppingnow
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 8:27am

Hi Peter,

I was looking into this for a while back in December as we needed it at the web development house I part-time work in.

I could not find anything so I tried writing something myself only to fail miserably.
But then around January, I stumbled through google into a kick-ass product. This was exactly what I was looking for.

It offers lots and lots of features that protect your pages and also encodes your code. And above all you do not have to download any programs.

check it out at: http://www.nesicon.com/webarmour

They offer free trials so let me know if this ws what you were looking for

Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 25 February 2007 at 10:08pm

If anything seriously impacts security, it should be run on the server, and not in the client.

As for that WebArmour stuff - I'm skeptical. They don't have a demo page there, which doesn't strike me as reliable. There's also no trial download or anything else.

It's cross-platform, which means that it's going to be JavaScript with maybe some entity-like encoding or whatever. Not very hard to crack usually. I just don't believe it. I've cracked these types of things before and they just never work.

If it's going to be readable by the browser, the HTML is going to be exposed. If it's exposed, it's cracked.

But honestly, I wouldn't worry about protecting HTML - it's just a waste of time. I don't know why you'd worry about it anyways. Nobody else does.

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Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 27 February 2007 at 10:30pm

all you have to do is one of the following:

1. wrap your entire code within the <invisible></invisible> tags so no one can see it...

2. password protect your whole website and don't give out the password to anybody.