How do you disable view source?

[websmith99]

Go to http://my.aol.com/ directly using IE browser. You can view the source either by right clicking or using the browser menu.

Now go to the same page by going to http://www.aol.com and clicking on the red "My AOL" tab. (this is the route most users would take). Now try to view the source. It has been disabled!!

How did they do this?

[ShawnDev]

I am able to view the source with IE 6.0.2800.1106

Which version are you using? And where are you right-clicking? Have you tried selecting Source from the View menu instead?

I also seem to remember something about there being a bug that would disable the View Source option in some situations...

In any case, it doesn't appear to be anything AOL did.

[websmith99]

I am using IE 6.0.2600.0000 on Windows 2000.

Of course I tried selecting Source from the View menu. As I mentioned, when you do this nothing happens. Any time I right-clicked on an area that was not an image and selected View Source nothing happened. Note that it works on every site but this one.

As you mentioned, its most likely an IE bug due to some certain situation.

[ShawnDev]

Originally posted by websmith99
I am using IE 6.0.2600.0000 on Windows 2000.

Of course I tried selecting Source from the View menu.

No "of course" about it. You'd be surprised.

The only thing I can recommend is that you upgrade IE. As I said, it's working fine here (also on Win2k). There isn't any way I know of that a site can disable your ability to view their source. OTOH, as I said, I do remember their being a bug in previous versions of IE that resulted in this behavior.

[websmith99]

ShawnDev,

Thanks for your reply. Could you please take a look at the previous threads that I started. They are all very challenging and have yet to be resolved. (If they are even solvable)

Any insights or tips are greatly appreciated.

Thanks