Re: obfuscate Javascript in Java and jsp files
Andrew Thompson wrote:
Christine Mayer wrote:
....
I am looking for a good javascript obfuscator - I found several on the
web, but I am looking for one that can also handle javascript in jsp,
html and java files - so I need a javascript obfuscator that handles
my entire java project.
Is there anything like that, preferable as a Eclipse plugin?
BwAHHH, AH, hah harr..
...You're joking, right?
<if not>
*Obfuscate* JS? Are you on drugs?!
What is that supposed* to achieve?
* No it won't achieve anything of value to the deployer,
but it would probably be amusing to hear what you
*think* that might achieve... ;-)
</if not>
Christine, underneath Andrew's caustic delivery beats a mentor's heart.
The question, rephrased to preserve ego, of what goal you aim to accomplish
(strategy) is important, compared to your stated question of what technique
(tactic) you currently plan to use to achieve that goal.
Obfuscating Javascript is a tactic, albeit a useless one, in service of a
larger purpose. What is your purpose?
Since Javascript is interpreted by the browser (or other client agent), it
must appear in source form from the server. The source could perhaps be
obfuscated slightly by silly tricks such as garbled identifiers, but keywords
and data cannot be, and DOM nodes must match what's in your HTML. It is hard
to conceive of any Javascript "obfuscation" that would obscure more than an
insignificant portion of the code, and even harder to conceive of any useful
purpose for doing so.
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Lew