Well, woogieoogieboogie seems to have crawled back under his rock.
So much for "showing everyone what a fucktart (sic) [I] really am". He trailed off on his journal when I cornered him on his misunderstanding of the intent of the web, which he got completely wrong. Now it's all deleted, strangly.
If you want a good laugh, take a look at some of William Platt's delusional, uneducated rantings on comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html. It will illustrate why a good education is important.
Starting with the absolutely astounding lameness:
Pratt:
> I am so sick and tired of this you cannot hide source code shit.
> Anything is possible.
Can anyone possibly be *this* stupid? If the browser can get it, anyone can get it, just by opening a socket and reading the file. But this is a common mistake of web developers - who think HTTP is some kind of arcane magic that no one could possible reproduce in a simplified form outside a browser. Or even write a browser more flexible than IE.
The link idiot-boy used as an example:
http://home.earthlink.net/~woogieoogieboogie/hideme.html
So, I did a "wget" on this and received:
if (document.all){
document.write("")
}
else{
document.write('Your browser sucks')
}
Then a wget on "http://home.earthlink.net/~woogieoogieboogie/spacer.gif" gives:
if (document.all){
document.write("");
document.write("If you look under view source in IE, you will be unable to see the source code");
document.write("
");
document.write("Of course you can link directly to the javascript file and view
the source of the javascript file, but that is not viewing the source of hideme.html");
document.write("
");
document.write("Of course some idiots will link to the javascript file and claim they have viewed the source code, but the fact that they had to link to another reesource to view the source code demonstrates that they were unable to view the source code of the file they were directed to");
document.write("
");
document.write("It would not be difficult to write a server side script which would redirect any links to the javascript file which did not come from the proper host. this is done all the time to stop people from linking to certain pages of a website.");
document.write("
");
document.write("Alternatively, the name of the external javascript file could be hidden in a cookie which would make it even more difficult to find the name of
the javascript file to even try and link to it.");
document.write("
");
document.write("Hope this breaks the myth that source code cannot be hidden");
document.write("hello");
}
else{
null
}
Here we are, the source. Of course, after this was trivially defeated by someone a bit smarter than he, a disclaimer was added as you can see. But the fact remains that he failed miserably. Even the disclaimer is incorrect. It *is* able to be viewed. We are viewing it now.
And if he understood the first thing about computing, he won't have said something as idiotic in the first place. "Nothing is impossible" ... not much room for a disclaimer there. Sounds fairly absolute to me. The rest of the thread is spent in Clinton-esque backpedalling and attempts at redefining what "hide" means in an extemely whiny and pathetic way.
More recently, we have:
Pratt:
> 20 years earlier and there woudl have been a lot less
> barriers and I probably woudl be the president of some fortune 500 company
> if I applied the same work, determination and persistence.
It's gone beyond comedy and into tragic self-mockery now.
"Barriers". Like expecting people to be able to think or be well educated, perhaps? I wonder what this company would produce, exactly? Idiotic, ignorant and uninformed ramblings on the internet aren't exactly valuable.
Like most losers, he mentions "Fortune 500" rather a lot. It's quite a common pattern I've noticed amongst clueless people. It's often an attempt to borrow credibility when you have none.
Pratt:
> As for disabled people, I think the greatest gift they can give to society
> is to overcome their disability on their own and serve as a role model to
> all that hard work does pay off.
I agree. Pratt himself is proof that now matter how lazy or ignorant you are, or whether your sister is also your mother, you too could become a "web developer" circa 1998 and make everyone else cover for you continually. Luckily, their ranks are rapidly thinning.
Perhaps he will see this, and show it to his real estate buddies where he claims to work. Now *there's* a field that has a low entry threshold ... almost as low as for a stock broker.