HI,



I am developing a WEB application using ASP.  I wanted to make it as a 

product and sell it to many customers.  



If I sell all the source codes to any customer, there is all possiblity 

that the customer can copy it and give it anybody.  HOW TO PROTECT THIS.



I thought of creating a .dll, but if the customer take shared server from 

the service provider, they wont allow me to install the .dll.  HOW TO 

SOLVE THIS PROBLEM.



I want a suggestion HOW TO PROTECT MY ASP CODE FROM DUPLICATING.



Mohan.

In short, you can't.  The only thing that will help, and this won't be a

huge help, will be to use a tool to encrypt your code.  Microsoft offers a

tool to do this and it basically makes it extremely difficult (but not

impossible) for somebody to read the source of your ASP pages.  This will

deter someone from copying and selling your app because the person buying

the app would not be able to easily modify it to fit their needs.  On a

positive note, with the coming .NET web services, you could provide the

business logic to your components as a web service and sell access to the

web services instead of providing the source to your client.



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Kyle M. Burns, MCSD

ECommerce Technology Manager



 



-----Original Message-----

From: Mohan [mailto:acmohank@t...]

Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 3:24 AM

To: asp_discuss

Subject: [asp_discuss] How to give Security to ASP pages.





HI,



I am developing a WEB application using ASP.  I wanted to make it as a 

product and sell it to many customers.  



If I sell all the source codes to any customer, there is all possiblity 

that the customer can copy it and give it anybody.  HOW TO PROTECT THIS.



I thought of creating a .dll, but if the customer take shared server from 

the service provider, they wont allow me to install the .dll.  HOW TO 

SOLVE THIS PROBLEM.



I want a suggestion HOW TO PROTECT MY ASP CODE FROM DUPLICATING.



Mohan.