Silly tip - hiding comments

[Niv3k]

I'm building a php/javascript page and I wanted to write some comments about my client side javascript code that I wanted "hidden" from browsers. Solution: Enclose the comments in php tags:

<? /*
   These are comments
*/ ?>

I know its not the most useful tip in the world, but a lot of times I want to put "sensitive" information inside of javascript comments, and this takes care of prying eyes.

Kevin

 

[AnakinPt]

the only way to do that is creating .js files.

then you load them with
<script file=&quot;myjsfile.js&quot; language=&quot;javascript&quot;>

then you can access the functions in the file normaly. Anikin
Hugo Alexandre Dias
Web-Programmer
anikin_jedi@hotmail.com

 

[Sleidia]

Anikin,

That's easy to retrieve *.js files you know.
You just type the URL with the path to the file
on you browser and then you can download the *.js file.
Nothing will be hidden.

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[AnakinPt]

you can configurte the http server to don't show the js files. I didn't do that, yet, but it's possible.

Anikin
Hugo Alexandre Dias
Web-Programmer
anikin_jedi@hotmail.com

 

[AnakinPt]

you were refering of the comments... ok that's way ...

this is to early to make me think. SOrry Anikin
Hugo Alexandre Dias
Web-Programmer
anikin_jedi@hotmail.com

 

[Niv3k]

If you download the .js file, like Sleidia said, one of two things will happen. If you have the .js file go through the php processor (by adding .js to the php config file) then the comments will be hidden. But if you do not have the .js go through the php processor then the php comments will show up.

So this tip CAN BE a security hole. But it can also be extremely useful.

I'm not sure however to completely prevent someone from downloading a .js file from the server without blocking the page the script is incuded on from being able to download it also. Any further info on that topic would be interesting...

Kevin