[4203] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Netscape question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Murple)
Thu Jan 30 10:52:09 1997
From: Murple <btherl@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 23:52:18 +1100 (EST)
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> I was browsing around and found a page that took away the toolbar and menu
> options in netscape to hide the source for the page. I was wondering if
> anyone could tell me how it is done or where i can find out about it. Thanks!
This is rather pointless - in order to display the page the client must have
the source for it, so all one would need to do to obtain the soruce for such a
page is to use a different client. If the server only allowed netscape clients
to connect, you could simply connect manually, say you are netscape, and you
would still get the source.
Even if it was encrypted asymmetrically, so that only netscape clients could
read it, it would eventually be broken - there are enough people with debuggers
and time on their hands to make sure of that :)
> Josh Gray
> grayjr@cs.purdue.edu
>
