EPUB SECURITY

[funkychic529]

Who can view a published epub?

[BobLevine]

Anyone.

[funkychic529]

Is that going to change anytime? Would be such a great tool for publishing content if you could either publish to your own site, or control visibility on adobe's server. What are the plans?

[BobLevine]

You asked about an EPUB. Is your question about that or Publish Online?

[funkychic529]

PUBLISH ONLINE. I understand the published doc resides on the Adobe server. My question is about security of that document. Ideally I would embed the document on my website on a page only accessed by site members. But can the publication can be found on the Adobe server by anyone who might be browsing around?

[Steve Werner]

You can't just browse the Adobe server. You would have to have the long alphanumeric string which is the URL to a particular document. But nothing would prevent someone with access to that URL from giving it to someone else.

[funkychic529]

Thank you.

If the embed code is used on my site, does that code contain the adobe server URL, and is that something that could be found by a site visitor?

[Steve Werner]

I'm not really a web person. Don't know what an embed code actually contains. Someone else hopefully will reply.

[Laubender]

funkychic529  wrote

… If the embed code is used on my site, does that code contain the adobe server URL, and is that something that could be found by a site visitor?

Hi,

it's up to you how you implement the link with your website.

I found one example where a simple a tag is used:

ScriptUI for dummies | Peter Kahrel

The link to the published online "ScriptUi for Dummies" brochure for ExtendScript scripters at the bottom of the page could be identified easily by a human reader if looking at the website in code view. When in Firefox simply press: cmd u

<a href="https://indd.adobe.com/view/a0207571-ff5b-4bbf-a540-07079bd21d75">click here</a>

This link is meant to be found.

How to prevent readability of the URL ?

A very weak "security" approach:

Use an URL shortener like TinyURL.

Or by using dynamic content where a script is loading content at runtime.

Don't ask for specific hints, that's not my realm of expertise.

Regards,
Uwe