If you want to give the average joe a bit of a challenge (or the adroit joe a headache), frames and javascript will provide some resistance; however, the info is still insecure. 

Someone Said:
>when someone visits your web page, they have downloaded it.  the only 
>thing saving the web page (or file associated with a web page) does is 
>move it from their web cache to a directory they've specified.  So like 
>Ken said, the only way not to get someone to "download" your content is 
>to not post it at all.
>
>if you're worried about images, there's always watermarks.
>
>jon
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>
>On Dec 3, 2004, at 11:45 AM, Ken Bowley wrote:
>
>> Oh God... this is the reason I tend not to pay attention to this list 
>> very often.  But since I have been so shocked by blatent ignorance to 
>> actually get myself to reply, I will attempt to answer.
>>
>> To the best of my knowlege, there is no special tag in (X)HTML that 
>> tells the browser to not download and display files from a web server. 
>>  You can add some javascript code to a page to disable printing, and 
>> while you are at it, you better use javascript to display the code to 
>> display the content to help prevent someone from turning off 
>> javascript and still getting to the content.
>>
>> Better yet, don't post the content on a web server at all.
>>
>> On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Fritz wrote:
>>
>>> I have a quick question that perhaps someone in PLUG knows
>>> the answer to.
>>>
>>> Is there anything in (X)HTML, a special tag perhaps, that
>>> will protect content? That is, instruct the browser to not
>>> allow "save" and "print" functions on this page.
>>>
>>> I realize that this would just be rudimentary protection
>>> since "screen capture" programs could be used to get around
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Fritz Kolberg
>>
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