[2843] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: disabling "save as source"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Garrigues)
Thu Aug 29 12:59:22 1996
To: Daniel Paz Cornes <dpaz@hsoft.es>
Cc: "O.C. Winton WN1Z" <orrin@redshift.com>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu,
cwg@deepeddy.DeepEddy.Com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Aug 1996 21:10:11 +0200."
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:08:53 -0500
From: Chris Garrigues <cwg@DeepEddy.Com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
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Somehow I missed Orrin's original message...
> O.C. Winton WN1Z wrote:
> > =
> > Sorry if this has been covered before:
> > =
> > I am thinking of offering web space for sale for people
> > wanting to put their genealogy info & family trees etc.
> > on the Web. It would be convenient for me if i could offer
> > a deal of "30 days for free, and if you look at it and like
> > it, send me the payment, otherwise it gets removed."
> > =
> > For this to be effective, i'd have to be able to disable their
> > ability to just save it as source and post it somewhere else.
> > Is there a way to do this with Netscape 2.0 + ?
> I think there is no way to do what you want. Server sends the source (u=
sually
> an HTML document) to the client across a TCP connection. Someone who ca=
n get
> the document can save it as source.
> =
> Even if client don=B4t allow you to save the source, you can get it dir=
ectly with
> telnet connection to server, for example.
Daniel is correct. As such, you need to make sure that you're providing =
some =
"value-added" beyond conversion of geneology data into HTML.
Since I'm interested in this area, I've put some thought into it. What y=
ou =
need to do is to add the value in the other data which is interlinked wit=
h =
their data. =
Consider why a genealogist wants to put data on the web? They probably w=
ant =
to do it so that other genealogists can find their data. There's your ho=
ok. =
You need to have a useful master index from which their information can b=
e =
found by other researchers. What they're paying for is not to have their=
=
GEDCOM converted into HTML; they're paying to have their GEDCOM data in y=
our =
index.
Designing such a search engine is an interesting problem. You'd like peo=
ple =
to be able to do queries like "Find the best matches for John Smith, born=
in =
1763 in New Jersey and moved to Philadelphia where he married a woman nam=
ed =
Jane. His son was named Thomas".
If you can do this, you'll have one of the prime sites on the net. If al=
l you =
do is sell pages, you don't really have anythiong very interesting. I su=
ggest =
you do a search for some of the other existing genealogy stuff on the net=
=
before you invest any time in this effort.
Chris
-- =
Chris Garrigues O- cwg@DeepEddy.Com
Deep Eddy Internet Consulting +1 512 432 4046
609 Deep Eddy Avenue
Austin, TX 78703-4513 http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/
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