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I had maintained website as volunteer for non-profit. It was decided to

hire professional to redesign the website.

He copied most files and put on his server without FP extensions and it

worked fine since publishing had resolved the code. I was surprised at how

easy it is to capture files from web site. He even told me that you can

purchase webgrab program that would capture all the files.



Other than using server side scripts which could not be captured, is there

anyway to protect website files from being copied?



Thanks for information.

Susan


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Basically if it's accessible with a browser it can be copied.





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"Susan" <dsnsacree@msn.com>wrote in message



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Search the group here, this is asked at least once a week.

If you don't want people to have it, don't put it on the web, that's the

only way to protect your files.



"Susan" <dsnsacree@msn.com>wrote in message



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Thank you!



Please tell me what is best way to search? I have Outlook and use the Find.

If I place copying in the message or subject, all that shows is my thread. I

must admit I am not very good at searching the newsgroups.

"Dave B." <mail@nomail.net>wrote in message



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Outlook actually uses Outlook Express to read newsgroups. Go to edit>find

message, type in your search parameters.



"Susan" <dsnsacree@msn.com>wrote in message



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You also need to vary the search keywords, just because you use "copying" in

your subject doesn't mean someone else will.

Do a search for "restrict" and see what you find.



"Dave B." <mail@nomail.net>wrote in message



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