Purchasing HTML Source Protection
It is amazing how many sites that there are selling products to protect the HTML source of your web page. The surprising thing isn’t how many different products that there are available in this market with prices ranging from free to several hundred dollars. The surprising thing is that such products are sold in the first place given that absolutely none of them work at all.
I guess those selling such products are making money by conning web newbies that such a thing as HTML protection exists in the first place. Of course no such protection exists as anyone who understands how web browsers work can easily see.
Purchasing HTML Source Protection
One thing that isn’t even mentioned on that page because I wasn’t aware of it at the time I wrote it is that most popular browsers now either support or have plug-ins available that support attaching JavaScript to the web browser that will run against any web page you load into it. With a simple View Source User Script installed in your Opera, Firefox/Greasemonkey or Internet Explorer/IE7Pro browser (with extension/plugin) you will have a view source link added to the bottom of every single web page that you view that will provide instant access to the source of the web page the way that the web browser currently sees it (after applying any decoding that was needed in order for the browser to get something displayable). That link is added to the web page itself by the script attached to your browser and nothing can be added to the web page by its author to block your using it to decrypt their page. Of course if you are developing JavaScripts that dynamically update the web page then this script is also useful as you can use it to view what the generated source looks like at any time. Of course a lot of people developing scripts use the developer extensions/plug-ins for the various browsers that also provide such access to the generated source of the page.
Tags: html, javascript, protection, userscript
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