securing your website from cloners

Debar

anyone recommend a good script to protect my webpages from theft?

planetsim

Id put hotlinking on. Other than that you can do nothing except hope that you come up to a site thats copied your design, get make sure you have the PSD's with the copyright Information etc on them.

Kindly email the webmaster when it happens, if they do not respond or dont take down the site you should acquire a lawyer.

dalecosp

Yeah, problem with this, there's a lot of ways to get stolen.

The old "don't frame us" trick, in JS:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" TYPE="TEXT/JAVASCRIPT">
      <!--- 
        //we don't wish to be framed!!
        if (top.location != self.location) {
              top.location.replace(self.location) 
}
        -->
      </script>

Dunno if we still need worry about that one or not...

I sometimes do a check of $SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] as well, but that's just basically to insure that no one grabs an include file as a seperate page ... doesn't help much on folks who steal HTML...

planetsim

Actually i forgot all about that one, and yes its still being done i saw one site only a couple of weeks ago do that.

Debar

thats pretty much what I thought, but ive been tolda about html encrypters and such, so thought there might be something new out there.

thanks for the info guys.

drew010

here are two html encoders i know of:
http://www.codelock.co.nz/
http://www.ioncube.com/html_encoder.php

of course a google or yahoo search for 'html encoder' will return a bunch of things, some free tools and scrips also.

mrhappiness

html encrypter?

the content you send to me during me visiting your page has to be in a form that my browser can display

if you encrypt it the thief can't use it which is godd but...
my browser won't recognize it as html and therefor can't display the page which is bad

only thing you can to is use output compression but your html-source and all the images you have on your page can't be protected

you can't effectivley protect your public pages (meaning the html, the images, the javascript and all that)

dalecosp

Originally posted by mrhappiness
html encrypter?

the content you send to me during me visiting your page has to be in a form that my browser can display

Heh, you think this isn't possible? Check my HTML source ... validator.w3.org says they can't read it at all ! 😃 (j/k, there's nothing interesting at my site, although I recently did create one page that validates.... :rolleyes: )

Some sites also have a little Javascript trick that disables "right-clicking" and, by assumption, the ability to "save image as" or whatever your particular browser calls it. It's easy to defeat this, but some members of the public likely can't think well enough to get around it ...