Preventing an HTML page save/download

[AHA7]

Hello,

Is there anyway to prevent people from downloading an HTML document from my website using JavaScript?
For example, My page is located at: "http://mysite.com/dir/page.html", how can I (using JavaScript or client-side codes) prevent someone from downloading that page (by right clicking the link > Save Target As...)?

P.S. I have to do this using JS or some other client-side language as this is on a free host that only allows HTML, so NO PHP, ASP, .htaccess,...

[stymiee]

You can't stop someone from getting your source code. The best you can do is block right click but as with anything javascript you just have to turn it off and it's defeated. It also won't stop someone from saving the page through the file menu. If you don't want people to have it, just don't put it on the web.

[Kravvitz]

To view a page it has to be downloaded first. So regardless of whether or not the person knows it they have a copy on their computer already just by visiting the page.

This is asked very often. The answer is simple: if don't want people to access/download it, don't put it on the web. Alternatively, login forms can be used to control access, but since you don't have access to a server-side language or .htaccess, you're out of luck.

Edit: stymiee beat me to it. I'll leave my reply anyway.

[SimplyFu]

no matter how you protect it, you can block regular users who use IE to save by right clicking. But you can't be fully protected from advance users

[felgall]

The browser has already saved a copy of all the content before it displays the page. Even encrypted content only needs a browser and about two lines of JavaScript to decrypt it.