December 2010
Intermediate to advanced
363 pages
12h 21m
English
book
Pro PHP Security: From Application Security Principles to the Implementation of XSS Defenses, Second Edition
by Chris Snyder, Michael Southwell, Thomas Myer
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C H A P T E R 10
User Authentication, Authorization, and Logging
In Chapter 9, we discussed attempting to prove that your users are human. In this chapter, we will attempt to determine just who those human users are, so that you can prevent them from abusing your application.
We are particularly interested in this chapter in online applications through which users interact with each other in a community or collaborative context. Examples of such behavior include posting comments or reviews, engaging in discussion about an issue or document, or creating and sharing online content such as photo albums or wiki pages. These applications depend to ...