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[nycphp-talk] Making text hard to copy

Edward Potter edwardpotter at gmail.com
Sat Aug 7 07:50:57 EDT 2010



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On Aug 6, 2010, at 10:59 PM, "Brian O'Connor" <gatzby3jr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, you're pretty limited to javascript (unless you output to flash
> or pdf), which obviously means anyone who disables it won't be
> affected. However, as you already stated you're aware of that, one
> thing that might be cool is to detect the ctrl+c keys being pushed,
> and reversed the selected text. That requires access to the clipboard
> (not always available), and disabling right click.
> 
> I don't really think about this problem too much, but might be an
> interesting idea.
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/6/10, J. T. Gray <jtg at intarcorp.com> wrote:
>> Output to Flash :D
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 6, 2010, at 9:50 PM, Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm starting to work on a system that will require a bit of extra
>>> security. One of the security protocols the customer's decided on is
>>> that the outputted page should be fairly hard to copy. Yes, I know
>>> making an HTML page uncopyable is impossible but I want to make it
>>> as hard as possible.
>>> 
>>> So far, I've come up with the following possible solutions:
>>> 
>>> - Put all the output on an image and disable right click
>>> - Output a PDF
>>> 
>>> Both of these solutions really feel nasty to me and don't really
>>> solve the problem at all.  Does anyone have any other ideas?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> Anthony
>>> 
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