Chapter 6. Advanced HTTP Techniques
CHAPTER OVERVIEW
The Decorator Approach
The Process-Chain Approach
Session Tracking via HTTP Cookies
HTTP Basic Authentication
HTTP Digest Authentication
Secure HTTP
In the previous three chapters, we used HTTP to transport text and binary data back and forth between mobile devices and backend servers. HTTP is crucial in end-to-end mobile commerce solutions, since it is ubiquitously supported by today’s application servers, gateway servers, and mobile devices. Emerging integration standards such as XML Web Services are all based on HTTP. However, HTTP was originally designed to carry stateless and unencrypted HTML content to anonymous Internet surfers. J2ME, especially the MIDP, supports only the most basic HTTP features. ...
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