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Third-Party JavaScript
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Third-Party JavaScript

by Anton Kovalyov, Ben Vinegar
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
288 pages
9h 44m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 7. Security

This chapter covers

  • Cross-site scripting (XSS)
  • Cross-site request forgery (XSRF)
  • Publisher impersonation, clickjacking, and denial of service

In previous chapters, you learned how to create a functional and configurable third-party JavaScript application, how to enable that application to communicate with your servers, and how to authenticate your users to unlock private and semi-private features. This chapter presents another important topic involving third-party JavaScript applications—the security of your application.

In the early days, the web was rather simple—it was a system of interlinked websites. These websites represented ordinary documents and were mostly static. The web server’s job was to retrieve a document ...

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