If you make a dynamic web-page, i.e. a script which returns a web-page, and it runs correctly, all what your users see through their browsers is the result of your script and not the script itself. Unless of course your script did not run and gets output as text, in which case you need to check the set-up of your CGI and server.

So generally there is no need to "encode" the script as the users will never see it anyhow.

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"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law