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  • 01-07-2010 12:44pm
    #1
    Taltos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,830 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi

    I am unsure if this is a bug - was just surprised to get access to source code.
    I was posting earlier on a thread and forgot where I was so used CTRL + U to underline highlighted text - however got a new popup called
    view-source:http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=66689776

    Within this I can see
    var SESSIONURL = "";
    var SECURITYTOKEN = "12xxxxxxxxxxxxx - removed the rest

    If requested I can post up the rest of the file.

    running Win XP on a lenovo over a work vpn.


    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot; dir="ltr" lang="en">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
    <meta name="generator" content="vBulletin 3.8.5" />

    <meta name="keywords" content="ireland,irish,chat,forum,forums,bbs,discussion,bulletin board,ask,share,information" />
    <meta name="description" content="boards.ie - 1000 monkeys... 1000 typewriters..." />

    <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=66689776&quot; />

    <!-- CSS Stylesheet -->
    <style type="text/css" id="vbulletin_css">
    /**
    * vBulletin 3.8.5 CSS
    * Style: 'White'; Style ID: 1
    */
    body


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  • #2
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    This is just standard functionality of your browser, showing the source code of the page. You can do this on any website and you'll see similar code.

    The source code of web pages is stored and transmitted in plaintext. Unlike a program, it's not compiled, so anyone visiting any website is capable of viewing the source code for that website.

    This is of course the HTML Source (which is basically just a description of how the page should be displayed) which differs from the PHP source which actually performs all of the logic and retrieval and is never shown to the end-user.


  • #3
    Taltos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,830 ✭✭✭✭Taltos


    Ah ok - thanks Seamus.

    Guess this thread can be closed so as it is really just down to poor user education.


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