Can someone see the code-behind of an .aspx website from a browser?
I have been told it is possible but i cant really find a way of doing it , viewing the page source only shows the presentation page..
So is there a way of doing it ? and how?
thank you
No, it is not possible to see the codebehind without physical or remote access to the server itself.
You could also in theory misconfigure the IIS server to display the source files, and that would cause them to be displayed, rather than compiled, but no idea why anyone would do that. IIS by default will not display them.
By default, IIS shows parts of your code (aspx or code-behind) when an exception occurs - along with the call stack of the exception. Any serious ASP.NET application hides this information from users by using specific error handlers to show the error information in another (often more user-friendly) format.
As others mentioned, it's not normally possible to see the code, as it's a server-side handler, compiled and run on the server, while client only sees the HTML output.
