neilt
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Posted: 2006-Nov-06 17:47
I've noticed on a few sites that if you try to look at the source of the page (in IE) it doesn't allow you too.
Does anyone know how to do this or point me in the direction of how to enable this feature on some of my pages ?
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 2006-Nov-06 17:57
I've seen it, too - always been curious about that - interesting way to offer a level of protection to images, too...
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g1smd
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Posted: 2006-Nov-06 21:21
Many times they have just disabled the mouse right-click action... but there are many easy ways around that. I immediatley back out of sites that do that to me. Don't mess with my UI!
On one occasion, there was no protection at all... just 200 blank lines at the start of the source code. They thought that most people wouldn't think to just scroll down to take a look... and they were probably right.
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neilt
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Posted: 2006-Nov-07 08:23
This is what I want to implement, a level of protection to my meta information. Any suggestions other than disabling the "right click" action would be welcome.
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 2006-Nov-07 13:17
Why protect the meta info? You are going to actually have to protect everything in the source or none of it, I think... 
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g1smd
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Posted: 2006-Nov-07 18:56
If users cannot get to it, then neither can bots.
If bots cannot get to it, they cannot index the page.
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neilt
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Posted: 2006-Nov-07 18:59
On the website I saw, I couldn't see the source code, but it is number one for the search term I was interested in Google.
Therefore Googlebot must have crawled the page successfully.
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Dinkar
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Posted: 2006-Nov-07 20:10
It's not possible to hide your HTML code from visitors. Disabling the "right click" action is useless and irritating. I wouldn't recommend it.
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neilt
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Posted: 2006-Nov-07 22:05
Even if you try View Source (in IE) nothing happens.
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animated3d
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Posted: 2006-Nov-07 23:29
with images its not a big problem,for me i just move the curusor to the corner of the image and then a small 'save image' icon comes, and i think if you cant see the view source you could have a good idea how it looks like from the cache of it in the SERP's
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Dinkar
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Posted: 2006-Nov-08 01:02
Even if you try View Source (in IE) nothing happens.
Use the following command in browser location bar.
view-source:http://www.site.com
Can you see it now?
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neilt
Joined: Aug 29, 2005
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Posted: 2006-Nov-08 08:42
The message I get is
"The webpage cannot be displayed"
I'm using IE 7 though.
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