On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Richard Peacock <richard.peac...@minorplanet.com> wrote: > Lol, good answer Krist! > > Although many people have tried to prevent things like right-click and > grabbing of files from their websites, they are all bypassable in one > way or another ;) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Krist van Besien [mailto:krist.vanbes...@gmail.com] > Sent: 26 March 2009 10:15 > To: users@httpd.apache.org > Subject: Re: [us...@httpd] How to prevent a site to be grabbed ? > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:57 AM, J. Bakshi <joyd...@infoservices.in> > wrote: > >> So I'm looking a way to prevent my site to be grabbed. Could any one >> suggest any measure in apache or .htaccess ? > > Don't connect your site to the internet. That will prevent is from > being grabbed. > > Krist > > -- > krist.vanbes...@gmail.com > kr...@vanbesien.org > Bremgarten b. Bern, Switzerland > -- > A: It reverses the normal flow of conversation. > Q: What's wrong with top-posting? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What's the biggest scourge on plain text email discussions? >
Grabbing a page means downloading a page. Browsing a page means the same thing. If you want to prevent grabbing, you have to prevent people from accessing the site at all. Even if you found a way to block clients like wget and curl (there is none), people could still just browse your site and click File > Save Page. Besides, wget and curl are not exactly nefarious programs. Sure, people can be really annoying with them, but they are used for perfectly legitimate purposes, so blocking their user agents is only going to annoy people who are using them legitimately, and not stop those who aren't. It's really not clear why this is such a concern for you? If there's stuff on your site that you don't want to people to have, why is it on your site? You can set up access restrictions so that a username and password are required, you can use SSL to prevent eavesdroppers from getting stuff that other people are looking at. But ultimately, putting something on your publicly accessible site is offering it up to be downloaded...that's what a site is. If you're just trying to prevent people from using all your bandwidth doing automated mass downloads, there are some techniques you can use to throttle access rates. Why don't you tell us exactly what content you have that you're so worried about and who you're trying to prevent doing what to it, and maybe we can figure out the right way to help you. -Brian -- Feel free to contact me using PGP Encryption: Key Id: 0x3AA70848 Available from: http://pgp.mit.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
