June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
848 pages
21h 28m
English
Server-side web programming is well established on the web. It lets you build systems with a client part that can run in a browser on any computer, with any operating system, at any time, from anywhere in the world.
The HTTP protocol provides a framework for communicating with a server, where all the real work is done. The server-side code may do load-balancing to move incoming requests to the system best equipped to handle them. The server code can access/update your database and process any data using the most up-to-date information. It does this in a safe way.
The client cannot call server routines directly. It can only send over HTTP requests saying what it wants. Opportunities to subvert the ...
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