how to prevent viewing of css file on browser using .htaccess

Question

I want to prevent the viewing of a CSS file from the browser. Meaning that i want to hide the css from prying eyes. I used this for example:

<Files somefile.css"> 
Require valid-user 
</Files>

But when i use this particular bit for example, the website breaks. Essentially what i want to do is to:

prevent the viewing of a specific css file from the browser.
whilst hiding this on the browser side, allow the website to function as normal.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advanced.

Greg · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-22 00:43:02Z

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This shouldn't be possible as the browser must receive the css file in order to render the site properly. And if the browser can read it, so can the user.

Maybe consider either some minification or obfuscation to disguise the code a little bit, or require a user to authenticate before viewing the site.

answered Mar 22, 2014 at 0:43

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David Duncan Over a year ago

It should be noted that even if the code is minified and uglified to one line the browser will still be able to inspect each element and the css applied to it.

Greg Over a year ago

Good point, bottom line is you can't really hide css from someone who wants to see it.

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