Code Obfuscation
By the way... if anyone is interested... I have accidentally found a way to keep the HTML hidden. If you care, that is. From what I have seen most people are cool with the source code being out there because it isn't super helpful anyway.
But if you are wanting to do that, a side-benefit is that it allows you to protect your story unless an audience member has specific permission to see it. For example if you were charging people (as in game distribution).
While I was setting up that part of it all, I stumbled over the source code thing.
BE CAREFUL NOT TO OVERWRITE YOUR EXISTING INDEX. YOU WILL BE ANGRY IF YOU DO.
But if you are wanting to do that, a side-benefit is that it allows you to protect your story unless an audience member has specific permission to see it. For example if you were charging people (as in game distribution).
While I was setting up that part of it all, I stumbled over the source code thing.
<HTML>
<HEAD></HEAD>
<BODY>
<?php
if (
$_POST['uname'] == "test123" ||
$_POST['uname'] == "someUser" ||
$_POST['uname'] == "otherUser"
)
{
$myfile = fopen("Story.html", "r") or die("Unable to open file!");
echo fread($myfile,filesize("Story.html"));
fclose($myfile);
}
else{
?>
<form action="index.php" method="post"> P: <input type="text" name="uname" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
<?php
}
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>BE CAREFUL NOT TO OVERWRITE YOUR EXISTING INDEX. YOU WILL BE ANGRY IF YOU DO.
Comments
i hope there's no issue about this, this will be awesome 8) good job
HTML, CSS and Javascript are interpreter based languages so if the browser has access to the source of your story then the user has access to the source of your story, it is that simple.
note: I edited the above line because I realized that I implied that this problem has a solution and it doesn't.
There are many tricks you can use to make it harder for someone to access the source code but all they do is increase the effort that someone needs to go through to get the source. They also increase the effort the developer needs to go to to create their product but more importantly they increase the risk of the application not working correctly for the paying customer.
You have me curious about the other part though. When I look at the source code, that's ALL I SEE (the thing I pasted in).
Do you see more of it?
This pane contains the HTML elements currently being displayed, place your mouse cursor over the line near the top that starts with <html then use the right mouse button to show a context menu. If you select the Edit as HTML option you will have access to the HTML of the current page which you can cut-n-paste into a file.
note: This is only one of the ways to get access to the source.
[quote]When you say MAY work... for the view-source option, is that because some browsers will view source differently than another
yes.
p.s. I edited my previous post to remove a part that implied that there is a solution to this issue.
If you make your creation available to your potential customers at a reasonable price (for the content they are getting) and use payment methods that are accessible to them then the average customer will pay for it.