Disable Edit in IE?

"William Tasso" <ngx (AT) tbdata (DOT) com> wrote

james wrote:
Curiosity prompts me to ask - is there a legitimate reason for your
wanting to disable the right-click that I have missed?
...
First off, I'm in fairly competitive market, and want to take every
precaution I can to protect our customers. To that end, I'd rather
hide the source code for file includes in our asp pages, so that I
don't hand a hacker a map to sensitive information...

Your asp includes are not exposed in your html source - only the result,
presuming html.

Keep your server nice and tight and all will be well in your world.

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Good point. Thanks.

james

james wrote:

Is there a way to disable the edit button and the View Source option in IE?
Well, I'm pretty sure that there is, but can't figure out how. Anyone know?

Thanks in advance.

james

Yes, you have to download the patch, available here:

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.4

;-)

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james wrote:

Curiosity prompts me to ask - is there a legitimate reason for your
wanting to disable the right-click that I have missed?


I guess that that depends on what you consider legitimate. If you
consider that if I believe that something is true, and act on that
belief rationally, then my so acting is legitimate (albeit
misguided), then yes. If you consider that if someone acts
legitimately, then that someone was acting based on true beliefs,
than maybe not.

Sorry, that's outside my scope

First off, I'm in fairly competitive market, and want to take every
precaution I can to protect our customers. To that end, I'd rather
hide the source code for file includes in our asp pages, so that I
don't hand a hacker a map to sensitive information. Of course, there
have got to be work-arounds, I'm sure. Too, a bit more time will
crack the nut for a really good hacker, I guess. I just want to do
EVERYTHING I can to make it as tough as possible.

Secondly, there are some movies about certain products that we made
ourselves, and I haven't seen any others out there, and I don't want
someone to just be able to link to my movie from their own site.
There will be other movies available soon, but not yet. I don't know
a reliable way to track how folks are linking to certain files on our
site, so I would rather just hide the properties from them
altogether. I could do this by hiding the source.

If those are your aims, hiding the source is not the way to achieve them -
I've often found it useful, when asking for advice, to describe desired
outcomes rather than asking for specific information about what I think will
be the solution. That way, I get input from people with a range of different
approaches. The threats that you describe are not lessened by attempts, no
matter how successful, to hide your source code.

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James Taylor said...

Is there a way to disable the edit button and the View Source
option
in
IE?

Check this site out.
http://www.webdesn.com

BIG SNIP

Chill dude,

I am really impressed with how you jumped all over my reply.
While it is true that you cannot hide source code, you can slow down
and
keep out newbies.


Eh? Newbies are least likely to do anything with your trash : but they
might learn something so why bother even trying to hide it.

Since browsers are client side renderers it is impossible to hide your
source. period. Anyone who really wants your source will get it.

To protect graphics just stick a watermark in them.

--
Walter Mitty.

My point is, if the original poster wanted options, however flawed they may
be, we will present them. It is simple for us to presume we know soooo much
about their motives that we put someone down in the process...that is newbie
posting at its worst.

Someone asks a question, we answer the question, the best way we know how.
People who actually posses knowledge don't have to belittle someone else to
show it.


James Taylor
www.AICompany.com