Re: HTML Protector for web pages.

On 27 Mar 2006 Richard Porter <dontusethis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 27 Mar 2006 Mick Martin <mmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have been getting some stuff took out of my web site on the Fife
Pits, with them taking stuff for there own web site, I do not mind
this if they would email me first and ask me, then I would not mind
helping them.

The browser has to be able to read your html and any objects
referenced by it (e.g. images) so there's no way you can prevent
anybody nicking your content. If you were able to put digital rights
management onto web pages (heaven forfend) then it would need to be
built into every browser, which isn't going to happen.

Exactly. Some sites prevent people directly linking to images on their sites,
by checking the referrer header on the browser and delivering an place
holder image instead. This prevents others from stealing bandwidth of the
site, but nothing stops you going to the site where the image will be
displayed properly, then saving it and using it yourself on your own site.

Other sites actually want images to be found and displayed in search engines,
but then try to stop you accessing them by sending the browser a redirection
so another page is displayed instead of the image. I've found webget will
not honor the redirection and will actually fetch the image. ;-)

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