Edit Internet Web Pages

[Tracy Lynn]

I have a question I hope someone can answer. When I go
to a page on the internet (any page), and then go
to "file" on the toolbar, sometimes the option to edit a
page show up, and sometimes it is grayed out.

My question, is how do I make my web site so that if
somebody tries to go to this "edit" button, it will be
grayed out.

Thank you very much in advance!

Tracy

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

If you are host on a Windows IIS server, then there is a cache setting that the host can set. There
may also be a way to do the same on Apache under Unix/Linux. You need to contact your host.

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[Andrew Murray]

I don't know about disabling the edit button in I.E. but any user viewing your
site has the pages 'downloaded' to the cache anyway - they just have to open the
pages from the temp internet files (if they know where to look - perfect legibile
pages, with images and scripts and so on intact)

If they to edit your web should be prompted for password and username (i.e. your
internet account's ils) so unless they know them, it won't work.

However, I tried it with a site I do actually maintain, and it prompted for the
password etc but I just hit escape, then it downloaded the page and opened in
Frontpage anyway - is this a security flaw?

It should come up 'access denied' or at least refuse to let me in I would have
thought.

Reuploading the file(s) is a different matter - you definitely need the password
and user name then, so you needn't worry about someone changing your pages then
reuploading them to your site. (and they can't edit it online either else there'd
be no point to any password protection if the work-around was that easy.).

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Basically when you hit the escape, you are getting the same content that a browser gets, this is not
a security issue.

However if your permissions corrupted, then a FP users would have complete access to your web site
content, so disabling the Edit With FP in IE would remove the ability of FP to open the site from
IE, even for the site owner. There are other ways to block FP access via the IE, one is to use
server-side script to check for FP's User Agent string.

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