FAQ Topic - How do I protect my javascript code?

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FAQ Topic - How do I protect my javascript code?
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In the main, you can't as your code is distributed in source
form and is easily readable. With JScript, there is the Script
Encoder (see MSDN), but this is nothing more than obfuscation.
Disabling the right mouse button also does nothing to protect
your script in a Web browser.

Your code is likely protected under copyright laws. See:

http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/copyright.html

http://webdesign.about.com/msubcopyright.htm

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[Info_Junkie]

Re: FAQ Topic - How do I protect my javascript code?


FAQ server wrote:

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In the main, you can't as your code is distributed in source
form and is easily readable. With JScript, there is the Script
Encoder (see MSDN), but this is nothing more than obfuscation.
Disabling the right mouse button also does nothing to protect
your script in a Web browser.
>
Your code is likely protected under copyright laws. See:
>

http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/copyright.html

>

http://webdesign.about.com/msubcopyright.htm

>
>
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I fully admit to being a "noob" here. Why I joined the newsgroup, to
learn, and I do every day. That being said, I have seen many sites
that "rightly" use an external "*.js" file. Thus, it is on the server
side, and I THINK it cannot be accessed by the end user. Please tell
me if I am wrong. Thanks!

Info_Junkie

[Evertjan.]

Re: FAQ Topic - How do I protect my javascript code?

FAQ server wrote on 11 okt 2006 in comp.lang.javas cript:

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In the main, you can't

What nonsense.

The illusion that "javascript " means "clientside javascript"
should not be part of the FAQ.

Suggestion of title change:

=== FAQ Topic - How do I protect my clientside javascript code?

... as your code is distributed in source form and is easily readable.

Because serverside j[ava]script is not neccessarily distributed at all.

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[Richard Cornford]

Re: FAQ Topic - How do I protect my javascript code?

Info_Junkie wrote:

FAQ server wrote:

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>In the main, you can't as your code is distributed
>in source form and is easily readable. ...

<snip>

I fully admit to being a "noob" here. Why I joined
the newsgroup, to learn, and I do every day. That
being said, I have seen many sites that "rightly"
use an external "*.js" file. Thus, it is on the server
side, and I THINK it cannot be accessed by the end user.
Please tell me if I am wrong.

You are wrong. Open IE and open the "Internet options" dialog from the
menu, select "Settings.. ." on the "General" tab and then the "View Files"
button to see the browser's disc cache. Now tell us how many of the JS
files you see there stayed on the server.

Richard.

[Tim Slattery]

Re: FAQ Topic - How do I protect my javascript code?

"Info_Junki e" <mrj7777777@yah oo.comwrote:

>I fully admit to being a "noob" here. Why I joined the newsgroup, to
>learn, and I do every day. That being said, I have seen many sites
>that "rightly" use an external "*.js" file. Thus, it is on the server
>side, and I THINK it cannot be accessed by the end user. Please tell
>me if I am wrong. Thanks!

Wrong. You can type the URL for that *.js file into your browser's
address bar and it will get it for you. If it wasn't accessible the
browser could never get it, and therefore it would not have access to
the JavaScript code contained in it.

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Tim Slattery
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