disable Save As

[Mohammed Sardar.]

Hello,
Can any one tell me how to disable "save as" and "print" option of browser menu bar?
if I go through File->Save As or Print, the document gets printed and saved.


I want to prevent this as this is for a requirement.


Can any one help me out in this issue?


Thanks in advance

[Stephan van Hulst]

You can't.

[Mohammed Sardar.]

Stephan van Hulst wrote:You can't.

Thanks and I read this at many places but had a hope that technology changes everyday. so that to get clarified.

Is it because Any browser is a software of Windows ? so that we don't have access to browser functionality. If you know beyond this please share.

[Bear Bibeault]

Stephan van Hulst wrote:You can't.

And if you could, you shouldn't. It's not your browser; it's the end user's. You shouldn't be trying to screw with it.

[Tim Moores]

There wouldn't be a point to it anyway, as the user could still take screenshots.

Let's take a step back: Why would you want to do this?

[Mohammed Sardar.]

Tim Moores wrote:There wouldn't be a point to it anyway, as the user could still take screenshots.

Let's take a step back: Why would you want to do this?

Agree. Some confidential, but in crisp, a banking app requires this disable for "Save As".

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Why do you need to prevent users from saving in a banking app? That seems like attempting security by obscurity. Which doesn't work. The data is on the user's machine which means the user has the code.

[Paul Clapham]

And then your next requirement will be to disable the "View Page Source" option, and then to disable the browser's web development tools. All of which allow the user to see (and copy) the page's HTML. This is a futile path to go down.

[Tim Moores]

And, I'd like to stress again that it'd achieve no security improvement. There should be nothing in the page that imperils security if seen by the user. If this kind of thing is considered as enhancing security, then something has been designed profoundly wrong (or security concepts have been misunderstood).

[Mohammed Sardar.]

++. This app will not be used by customers of bank.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

I can't imagine any use case where disabling save as is useful.

[Bear Bibeault]

Who is the user then, and what is the intent of the requirement?

As others have pointed out, it serves no practical use.

[Stephan van Hulst]

It's pretty simple really: The user doesn't get anything to say about how your server works (imagine if they could!), and you don't get anything to say about how the user's browser works. If the user isn't allowed to do something with some data, then you shouldn't send that data to the user.

[Mohammed Sardar.]

Thanks for your great time and effort. Let me get back on this with some more please.