Hey there,
I am wondering if there is any way or method to conceal Meta Tags or the HTML Cods from being revelaed in the Source window. Or are there special characters or tages to be usesd to serve this purpose?
Thanks a lot for help.
Cheers,
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Hey there,
I am wondering if there is any way or method to conceal Meta Tags or the HTML Cods from being revelaed in the Source window. Or are there special characters or tages to be usesd to serve this purpose?
Thanks a lot for help.
Cheers,
Why? I know a few tricks but trying to hide HTML is a futile exercise.
As far as hiding them-no. But prevent others from understanding them yes. You can encrypt the source by using a program like this one http://www.antssoft.com/htmlprotector/index.htm
Haven't used it myself but seen the byproduct of it, very interesting.
You'll only prevent a total n00b from snooping around...
It has to be decrypted before your browser can understand it. Therefor anyone can decrypt it and read it.
yes, very true. But in all truth that goes with anything- a person that knows what he is doing right will get past any measures.
Use Flash or something of that extent to hide your work is what'd I say but that too is pretty easy to abuse, but SirDice is right, it's futile, your browser has to understand it thus you will be able to find the source one way or another.
The question really is:-
What are you putting in the Meta tags that you want to hide?
answer is.......?
Considering what meta tags are generally used for, trying to hide them is stupid. If you are putting something there that needs to be hidden, you're putting that information in the wrong place.
You cannot hide what you are sticking in the web page. You can raise the bar a bit but for the most part it is far more work than it's worth, and most of the solutions that will be provided here are complete and utter crap (especially encrypting the html).
I can't agree more....Quote:
and most of the solutions that will be provided here are complete and utter crap
The most common use of meta's is to publicise something, why would you want to hide that? Then there's the ability to determine what robots can do.... You either want that or you don't, if you don't then don't include the tag.... there are other ways to look at the site without being a robot. Then there's authoring info etc. Well if you don't want it to be public don't put it out there....
The more I think about this the less I understand the question... Web pages and their content are public if you stick them out there on the internet.... If you don't want it public don't put it out there.... No matter what you do it's out there "swinging in the breeze" for all to see....
More information as to _why_ might help but for now you have me, (and some others I'm sure), stumped......
If you wish to hide META tags, dont send them in the first place! As far as doing it in falsh, or even java applets, it only tags 2 minuates to decompile either.
Follow a simple rule if you do not wish a user to some information, do not send it to them.
SittingDuck
Actually hiding Meta Tags is very important in terms of preventing them from being imitated blindly. I know that some of you think that i am up to no good, but this is anything but tru. I am a student, and i thought that you, at AO, would help me to figure some vague aspects out.
For instance, Cnn hides its Meta Tags, is it ILLEGAL?
Tiger Shark,
Of course, putting the content on-line will make it public. I just want to make Meta Tags unseen for the visitores, and this is uncompromised right. I don't want anyone to imitate my meta tags. I think no one likes his work to be stolen. That's all what i am leading toward.
maybie sepultura, you could explain in more detail the situation you need to hide your meta tags? I am finding it hard to find a reason why imitating meta tags would be a security issue (or do you mean manipulating meta tags?)
go to www.cnn.com and you will findQuote:
For instance, Cnn hides its Meta Tags, is it ILLEGAL?
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>CNN.com International</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1800">
<title>CNN.com</title><link rel="Start" href="/">
How is that hiding their meta tags??
sittingduck
I did not mean all meta tags i meant Meta KeyWords, which the search engine crawl about when you make a search query. I hope i am clear now.
Why hide Meta KeyWords ???
The search engine need to it and if you hide it, they will not read your Meta KeyWords!!! What are you putting in your Meta KeyWords ? illegal things to attire more people on your site and you don't want that your visitor see it. Because i cannot find a good reason to hide that. theyt are just keywords for help search engine and useless to anyone else.