I hear it is possible to disable the web browsers print function, does
anyone know how to do that?
anyone know how to do that?
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Re: Deactivate browser's print function
Cartoper <cartoper@gmail .comwrites:
You heard wrong.I hear it is possible to disable the web browsers print function
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On Jul 28, 9:25 am, Sherm Pendley <spamt...@dot-app.orgwrote:Bummer, what I heard, well read, exactly is:Cartoper <carto...@gmail .comwrites:>I hear it is possible to disable the web browsers print function
You heard wrong.
Selecting the "Print only blank pages" option will prevent visitors
from printing your pages. Any time someone uses the print function,
either the browser will refuse to print (Internet Explorer 4.0 or
higher) or only a blank page will be output (Netscape Navigator 6.0 or
higher and Opera 4.0 or higher).
This function works with almost every CSS 2.0-enabled browser. Be
aware that no warning is given, so users in this scenario may suspect
a faulty printer or defective software.
source: http://www.aw-soft.com/htmlguard-security.html
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Cartoper wrote:
Ah ha. What their software is essentially doing is adding a print
stylesheet to your page that contains the rule:
* {
display: none;
}
This means that nothing will be shown on any pages that are printed. Of
course, this is going to annoy people who don't know how to get around
such silly things.
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"Cartoper" <cartoper@gmail .comwrote in message
news:1185630224 .358246.180630@ z24g2000prh.goo glegroups.com.. .Har har.On Jul 28, 9:25 am, Sherm Pendley <spamt...@dot-app.orgwrote:>>Cartoper <carto...@gmail .comwrites:>>I hear it is possible to disable the web browsers print function
>You heard wrong.
Bummer, what I heard, well read, exactly is:
>
Selecting the "Print only blank pages" option will prevent visitors
from printing your pages. Any time someone uses the print function,
either the browser will refuse to print (Internet Explorer 4.0 or
higher) or only a blank page will be output (Netscape Navigator 6.0 or
higher and Opera 4.0 or higher).
>
This function works with almost every CSS 2.0-enabled browser. Be
aware that no warning is given, so users in this scenario may suspect
a faulty printer or defective software.
>
source: http://www.aw-soft.com/htmlguard-security.html
<oil src='snake'>
To refute the claims made on the abovementioned page:
1. Type some simple javascript into the address bar and the "source" is
immediately visible. The real disadvantage of this approach is that those
with javascript unavailable (estimated to be 10 to 15%) will never see the
page. This is just like turning your server off for the month of December.
2. Tidy (google for it). Tidies things up nicely.
3. Stupid. Never seen a scroll bar?
4. With one mouse click I can disable javascript. Then "no right click"
scripts are disabled. Anyway I don't use my right mouse button to steal
images. I left click/drag/drop them into my image editor. Going to disable
my left mouse button as well?
5. What "block text selection" option. a) Use another browser b)
view:http://url.
6. Most modern browsers dont allow clipboard disablement anyway.
7. Har Har. Disable print? Use another browser or type view:http://url into
your address bar. And what are you going to do once you have printed the
page? Type it into an editor? You don't need a hardcopy for that, just two
windows open.
8. PHP3? Har har. Nothing done server side will stop me from saving your
images. Nothing. Ever heard of Print Screen?
It should be noted that most of the snake oil promulgated by this site
assumes IE. People who would *want* to steal code are the least likely ones
to be using IE.
And those who *can* bypass the trivial barriers and steal the code and use
it would be the very ones who could write it from scratch and do a far
better job.
Finallly:
The desire to hide the HTML behind a page is inversly proportional to the
value of that HTML to anybody else.
</oil>
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Re: Deactivate browser's print function
"rf" <rf@invalid.com writes:
...."Cartoper" <cartoper@gmail .comwrote in message
news:1185630224 .358246.180630@ z24g2000prh.goo glegroups.com.. .>>>
>source: http://www.aw-soft.com/htmlguard-security.html
Har har.
>
<oil src='snake'>
>
To refute the claims made on the abovementioned page:
I completely agree. In my opinion, such products aren't far short of out-</oil>
right fraud - they're making claims about capabilities which they simply
cannot deliver. Their business model is based on the fact that most people
do not realize this, and believe the claims.
Sadly, there's a sucker born every minute, so these frauds manage to stay
in business.
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On Jul 28, 10:45 am, Sherm Pendley <spamt...@dot-app.orgwrote:
First off, I don't disagree that all these types of things are easy toI completely agree. In my opinion, such products aren't far short of out-
right fraud - they're making claims about capabilities which they simply
cannot deliver. Their business model is based on the fact that most people
do not realize this, and believe the claims.
>
Sadly, there's a sucker born every minute, so these frauds manage to stay
in business.
get around, IF YOU KNOW HOW. Being a professional software developer
I understand that it isn't a matter of if your code is stolen, but
when is it stolen.
On the other hand I think it is foolish not to put basic measures in
place to "keep the honest people honest". I am putting together my
photography studio web site and I want to at least let folks know that
I don't want them taking my images. In the end I will leave it to
their congest (how do you spell this work? I spend 10 minutes trying
to figure it out and I cannot, please enlighten this poor fool that
cannot smell!) as to go around my basic measures or not;)
Cartoper
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Re: Deactivate browser's print function
Cartoper <cartoper@gmail .comwrites:
You're wasting your time. Honest people don't need such measures, and ifOn the other hand I think it is foolish not to put basic measures in
place to "keep the honest people honest".
you think they'll stop the dishonest ones you're just kidding yourself.
Everybody and their dog knows how to disable JavaScript these days.
Then put a watermark on them. Just add a text layer in Photoshop that saysI am putting together my
photography studio web site and I want to at least let folks know that
I don't want them taking my images.
"SAMPLE" and make that layer 85-90% (or so) transparent.
It's simple, free, and (unlike a "solution" that only works if the user
allows it to) is actually quite effective at preventing your online samples
from being misused.
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On 2007-07-28, Sherm Pendley <spamtrap@dot-app.orgwrote:The website was quite honest about it in this case though, explaining"rf" <rf@invalid.com writes:
>>>"Cartoper" <cartoper@gmail .comwrote in message
>news:118563022 4.358246.180630 @z24g2000prh.go oglegroups.com. ..>>>>>
>>source: http://www.aw-soft.com/htmlguard-security.html
>Har har.
>>
><oil src='snake'>
>>
>To refute the claims made on the abovementioned page:
...
>>></oil>
I completely agree. In my opinion, such products aren't far short of out-
right fraud - they're making claims about capabilities which they simply
cannot deliver. Their business model is based on the fact that most people
do not realize this, and believe the claims.
what it does and why it doesn't really work.
When I saw aw-soft I thought is this Albert Wiersch again, but it seems
to be "Andreas Wulf Software".
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On Jul 28, 6:16 pm, Cartoper <carto...@gmail .comwrote:
Like the unskippable reminder that I shouldn't buy pirate DVDs thatOn the other hand I think it is foolish not to put basic measures in
place to "keep the honest people honest".
appears before the main content on rather a large proportion of my
(bought and paid for) DVD collection?
Or the DRM on downloaded music that I have to strip off before I can
burn it to CD to listen to in the car?
What do you lose if someone hits print to get a hard copy of a webpageI am putting together my photography studio web site and I want to at least let folks know that
I don't want them taking my images.
displaying your photo?
Surely it is going to be a low resolution version and have the
standard browser header/footer containing date stamps, URLs and the
like? Its not going to be much use for anything beyond "Hey boss, this
looks like a good picture for our thingy, shall we buy it?".
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Re: Deactivate browser's print function
Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:19:28 GMT from rf <rf@invalid.com >:Huh? What's that supposed to do?Use another browser or type view:http://url into
your address bar.
In Mozilla, I get "view is not a registered protocol".
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Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:45:36 -0500 from Ben C <spamspam@spam. eggs>:"'Name him not!' said Gandalf, and for a moment it seemed that aWhen I saw aw-soft I thought is this Albert Wiersch again
cloud of pain passed over his face, and he sat silent, looking old as
death."
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"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown @fastmail.fmwro te in message
news:MPG.211574 1ad1ecd9da98aef d@news.individu al.net...Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:19:28 GMT from rf <rf@invalid.com >:view-source:>>Use another browser or type view:http://url into
>your address bar.
Huh? What's that supposed to do?
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In Mozilla, I get "view is not a registered protocol".
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rf wrote:
...and that just displays the encrypted source (in Firefox and"Stan Brown" wrote:>>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:19:28 GMT from rf <rf@invalid.com >:>>>>Use another browser or type view:http://url into your address bar.
>Huh? What's that supposed to do?
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>In Mozilla, I get "view is not a registered protocol".
view-source:
SeaMonkey). <g>
view-source:http://www.aw-soft.com/htmlguard-sample.html
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"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@ex ample.invalidwr ote in message
news:CKRqi.8100 $ax1.2049@bgtns c05-news.ops.worldn et.att.net...The view-source comment was directed at snake oil point 5, the "block textrf wrote:
>>>"Stan Brown" wrote:>>>>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:19:28 GMT from rf <rf@invalid.com >:
>>>Use another browser or type view:http://url into your address bar.
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>>Huh? What's that supposed to do?
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>>In Mozilla, I get "view is not a registered protocol".
>view-source:
..and that just displays the encrypted source (in Firefox and
SeaMonkey). <g>
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view-source:http://www.aw-soft.com/htmlguard-sample.html
selection" option, to point out how silly it is to disable only one of the
many ways to achieve copy/paste. Like locking the door on your convertible
but leaving the top down.
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