[thelist] PHP/ASP/ColdFusion - Keeping application private...

[Nicole Parrot]

I only know for ASP, but it can be pre-compiled now on IIS 5.

That will stop the users from reading the code, although I'm told there's
already a decompiler out there, which I have yet to see..


Nicole

----- Original Message -----
From: "jon steele" <jjsteele22 at yahoo.com>
> Okay, say you've made a smashing new application, which does everything
> a client wishes for. You've worked long and hard on it, and you want to
> sell this product individually. You want to allow each customer to run
> it off their own php/asp/coldfusion/etc. server. What do you do to keep
> them from getting at the source files? You don't want them to see the
> code, but they have access to the raw server-side files through their
> ftp/etc. What would you do?