Myth - You can hide the source code of an HTML page

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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

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