[Myth]You can hide the source code of a HTML page

Myth

You can hide the source code of an HTML page.

Reality

FALSE.

Explanations

To view a web page (HTML), the browser must - at a time when another - have the HTML code.
There is always way to recover it.

• The most common solutions to prevent access to the source are:
• The prohibition of right-click and save it (which is easily bypassed in Firefox by unchecking the corresponding JavaScript in the configuration)
• The use of multiple frames or iframes to hide the real URLs of pages (the screen "Page Info" in Firefox will show the related URLs).
• Encryption of the page (including a bit of Javascript, which decrypts the page). Is easily bypassed by using the inspector Firefox code that accesses the HTML code after execution.

Notes

Thanks to Sebsauvage for this tip

See also

Knowledge communities.

• Forum
• Programming forum
• Software forum

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