How do I hide my HTML code from others?

**Jeff Lange** · Nov 7, 2003, 16:05

You could still access it if you tried, by forcing the HTTP Referrer header being sent to the server (again via cURL or similar).

**M. Johansson** · Nov 7, 2003, 17:21

This topic is really boring and overdone.

**Gaheris** · Nov 7, 2003, 17:23

Yes, it is.

**Dr Livingston** · Nov 8, 2003, 09:38

This topic is really boring and overdone.

So is the thread on DotNet Vs PHP but you still take part in it don't you ?

What's the difference huh ?

**Gaheris** · Nov 8, 2003, 09:42

We should really stop posting in this thread. It was funny though.

**marcoBR** · Nov 8, 2003, 10:45

Never discourage... keep searching and learning!

**Jeff Lange** · Nov 8, 2003, 12:12

What? this thread isn't dead yet?

**Gaheris** · Nov 8, 2003, 12:19

Someone bumped it.

**Dr Livingston** · Nov 8, 2003, 12:31

But it wasn't me

**M. Johansson** · Nov 8, 2003, 19:23

Originally Posted by Dr Livingston

So is the thread on DotNet Vs PHP but you still take part in it don't you ?

What's the difference huh ?

No, I think debating .NET and PHP is fun. This is really boring.

**Dave Morton** · Nov 8, 2003, 20:06

While I agree that it's really ludicrous to try to hide HTML/Javascript, there are ways for it to be made mostly unreadable by human eyes. For example, you can use PHP to output every bit of text between tags as HTML entities, or turning every variable in your javascript into the same 10 digit name (or more, if needed), but with different case for each one. However, not only will this lose visitors, as was earlier stated, but it makes the code an absolute nightmare to maintain. Not to mention that, no matter what kind of obfuscation techniques you can dream up, people like me (and a whole lot of other folks here, too) can still get your code.

There! I got my turn at whacking this dead chinchilla!

**Gaheris** · Nov 8, 2003, 20:09

Dave.

But like someone already said, if you want to hide your HTMl then you probably haven't got anything worth showing anyway.

And now: Let this thread die in peace!

**Scottish Charlie** · Jan 20, 2004, 12:46

Interesting - have a look at this http://www.htmlguardian.org

**Gaheris** · Jan 20, 2004, 12:50

Please, let this thread rest in peace.

**ChaCha** · Jan 20, 2004, 14:06

If you really had some amazing piece of javascript and or html that you just can't afford to leak out to the world (I doubt this very much) you would patent the algorithm or technique and comment this fact in your code. Just out of curiosity, does anyone here hold any patents of interest? Have you ever had to defend them?

**M. Johansson** · Jan 20, 2004, 15:39

God, I cannot imagine how much time is wasted on the stupid process of protecting HTML content.

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