Question:
Help needed to disable "save as" under file menu?
mike
2007-05-04 14:14:12 UTC
Help needed to disable "save as" under file menu
i want to disable save as option from file menu so that user cannot copy web content to their hard-drive. i can disable right click but it's not the whole solution.
Some people says it is not possible but i know it is possible but how i don't know .

http://www.totaram.com/ (save as option is disable here)

Please help me to find this code .

Thanks
Six answers:
Seth
2007-05-04 14:19:03 UTC
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ has a ton of code...
csanon
2007-05-04 21:19:56 UTC
It's *NOT* possible. Think about what is happening. When people go to your website, they MUST download the web content to the hard drive (it's a bit difficult to see the content when you don't have it on hand). So if people can see a webpage, they already have it saved to the hard drive. You can't take over the person's computer and prevent him from keeping your website data.



Uh, with the totoram site, save as option is NOT disabled.



EDIT: Any solutions people post are JavaScript solutions. It doesn't work. Aside from the above reasoning, all you need to do is disable JS in your browser. Then what?
Mark S, JPAA
2007-05-04 23:19:56 UTC
Nothing is impossible!



File menu: Disable Save As... menu option



User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\Browser menus



Description



Prevents users from saving Web pages from the browser File menu to their hard disk or to a network share.



If you enable this policy, the Save As command on the File menu will be removed.



If you disable this policy or do not configure it, users can save Web pages for later viewing.



This policy takes precedence over the File Menu: Disable Save As Web Page Complete policy, which prevents users from saving the entire contents that are displayed or run from a Web Page, such as graphics, scripts, and linked files, but does not prevent users from saving the text of a Web page.



Caution:



If you enable this policy, users are not prevented from saving Web content by pointing to a link on a Web page, clicking the right mouse button, and then clicking Save Target As.



Since you've already disabled right-clicking, this should do it!
computerguy103
2007-05-04 21:22:11 UTC
You can't.



You can't.



Really, you can't.



Need I say it again?



Trust me, disabling right-click is good enough to prevent almost all of your viewers from downloading your stuff. The few who are savvy enough to get around the right-click block will get around anything you can come up with, and all you will accomplish by making it more difficult is piss them off and make them more determined to break your protection.



Quite frankly, right-click disabling is extremely irritating. If you are that worried about people downloading your stuff, watermark it! Or, just do not put it on the site.
arif
2007-05-08 09:06:33 UTC
HI can u send me a code how to disable save as option on web pages

u can send me to my mail mohd_arif_uddin@yahoo.com is my e-mail ID
Bhaskar
2007-05-11 09:03:58 UTC
in public webpage!!!!



i heard of one software which could do this ( they say ). it is web protector or webpage protector, something like that. u have to find it...i never tried it though.



good luck

bhaskar


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