hi all

which is the best way to protect html files from being stolen(downloaded)? Or if they are being downloaded which is the best way to encrypt them?
thanks

There isn't. Anyone can steal HTML, CSS, JavaScript, (there's more) easily. And you can't encrypt them, well you can add unseen comments to the code, but then can be removed.

What you can do is refer to your images as 'images/img.jpg' instead of 'http://www.mysite.com/images/img.jpg'. That way it would be harder (still easy) to make the stolen page work.

But you shouldn't be worried about that, every website in the world can have there HTML stolen (at least I think)

There really isnt a way to Protect Youre Html. But u can Copyright youre design's and just watermark everything. And Include Something like If you steal my business html/Design's that we will Press charges and Take you to court that's basically all u can do. And for youre artwork become friend's with alot of other designer's and people that use the web and make them get to know youre artwork because then if someone reconized any of Ur art stolen they could tell you!!!

There is some software that can help with this - it does several neat things including masking affiliate links. Nothing is totally foolproof, but this could fend off some thiefs:
http://www.mtopsoft.com/encryptpro/index.htm

They have a free trial if you want to see how you like it.

There's nothing that will really save you. Your only vestige of hope is obfuscation. There are programs which interface with your browser to traverse the DOM of your HTML and regenerate the relevant HTML -- 2 clicks is all it takes for me.

But, let's be serious here -- what is so special about your HTML? Are you an HTML God(dess)? Anyway you look at it, I can probably duplicate what you make with a small amount of effort without even looking at your HTML (though I'd definitely hotlink to your images) so what exactly are you protecting? There are a number of ways of doing things in HTML: Copying an HTML site on par with the Mona Lisa is trivial compared to having to hand-craft the Mona Lisa.

Also, don't bother with all the garbage about threatening lawsuits. Unless you intend to back it up -- and even then you're likely to never get paid -- it's a waste of time. If someone is black hat enough to want your site, they're not going to care about your false promise of lawsuits (which most such threats are).

Originally Posted by Nike

No way of protecting your files, but there our a few ways to making it harder to steal. Enable Javascript and turn no right click on. lol I know its kinda gay, but maybe it will irritate some of them? Uhm, you can make all your code go across instead of writing it down the page.

Killing right-click won't stop people getting to your HTML, it will barely make it harder as everything they need is in the browser menu.

Disabling right click is baaad idea.

when I see a website with right-click disabled, it makes me want to see why, what exactly is being hidden, so i view the source.

do you think that this HTML codes are not that important if so why aren't there anything that can prevent other people to steal your html?

My personal opinion is that no one is creating any HTML that's so wonderful that it needs to be protected. Images, I can understand.

There's no way to protect it b/c it's not a compiled language. Fact of the matter is, however, that any script can be decompiled and a source found. It's the nature of programming: The computer needs to be able to understand what to do and in order for that to be true, it must be in a form that someone else can access to (if a computer can access it, then a human can as well).