Secure Web-Based Licensing
By Mike Scanlon, November 01, 2000
If you want to protect your software from misuse, you have to outsmart potential thieves and still not annoy your legitimate customers. This is not as easy as you might at first think.
November 2000/Secure Web-Based Licensing/Listing 3
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>The License Granting Authority Page</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<OBJECT ID="CryptoLicense"
CLASSID="CLSID:7DFD9060-5CD5-11D4-AD62-00C04F41258E"></OBJECT>
Please input your cookie:
<INPUT name="Cookie" VALUE = "" SIZE="64">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="License Me!"
name="cmdLicense" onclick="OnClick()"><HR>
Your license is:
<INPUT name="License" VALUE = "" SIZE="64">
<HR>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JScript">
function OnClick()
{
License.value = CryptoLicense.GrantLicense(Cookie.value);
}
</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HTML>
