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Securing Ajax Applications
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Securing Ajax Applications

by Christopher Wells
July 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 19m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 1. The Evolving Web

People are flocking to the Web more than ever before, and this growth is being driven by applications that employ the ideas of sharing and collaboration. Web sites such as Google Maps, MySpace, Yahoo!, Digg, and others are introducing users to new social and interactive features, to seeding communities, and to collecting and reusing all sorts of precious data.

The slate has been wiped clean and the stage set for a new breed of web application. Everything old is new again. Relationships fuel this new Web. And service providers, such as Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft, are all rushing to expose their wares. It's like a carnival! Everything is open. Everything is free—at least for now. But whom can you trust?

Though mesmerized by the possibilities, as developers, we must remain vigilant—for the sakes of our users. For us, it is critical to recognize that the fundamentals of web programming have not changed. What has changed is this notion of "opening" resources and data so that others might use that data in new and creative ways. Furthermore, with all this sharing going on we can't let ourselves forget that our applications must still defend themselves.

As technology moves forward, and we find our applications becoming more interactive—sharing data between themselves and other sites—it raises a host of new security concerns. Our applications might consist of services provided by multiple providers (sites) each hosting its own piece of the application.

The surface ...

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