Comments on: How To Protect Your Website Template and CSS Files From Theft

By: How to Prevent Hijackers from Ripping Off Your Website – FreelanceSwitch

How to Prevent Hijackers from Ripping Off Your Website – FreelanceSwitch — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:22:02 +0000

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By: 46Bit

46Bit — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:34:40 +0000

An awful solution, Witold Rugowski. Many antivirus packages strip out the referrer from the http request – you’d be making the css invisible to them.

By: praveen

praveen — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:03:02 +0000

Nice idea! but as Witold said, CSS file can be viewd using “web developer toolbar” or any similar firefox extension.

By: Freelance Students » Blog Archive » How to Prevent Hijackers from Ripping Off Your Website

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:34:59 +0000

[...] do to try to prevent this from happening. One thing you can do is encrypt your code. Have a look at this website for more information on code [...]

By: Jash Sayani

Jash Sayani — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:36:08 +0000

Nice article !

Any way to break through this ??

By: Witold Rugowski

Witold Rugowski — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:48:41 +0000

Don’t You understand that You have to send CSS content to browser anyway? And when it’s in browser user can do whatever he want – for example save and reuse (steal).

So this cumbersome hack will not show CSS code when You fetch file directly from webserver. But Firebug will have all CSS stored in HTTP responses. Or You can use some debugging proxy like Fiddler or Charles, or even network sniffer to get whole CSS file.

If You want to prevent from direct linking CSS files and other assets You can use just .httpaccess and scan HTTP_REFERER. As result Your site will work for clients with cookies disabled – PHP session requires cookies to be enabled, so with them disabled user won’t get CSS.

By: Ribbons of Red: Journal » Blog Archive » Reporting and Preventing Website Hijacking

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:48:30 +0000

[...] 1. Hide that code! If being hijacked has left a nasty taste in your mouth or if you are scared of this happening to you, there are things you can do to try to prevent this from happening. One thing you can do is encrypt your code. Have a look at this website for more information on code protection. [...]