Security Basics

By the very nature of this platform, your WAP applications are Internet applications. In order for a user to reach your application, he must connect through his local Internet service provider (ISP) to a WAP gateway before requesting data from your Web server. This request from the WML browser will travel between many different systems before it reaches your application code.

Any application on the Internet is subject to some basic security problems. This section will help you understand the risks involved to your user's trust by examining the basics of security, the system's architecture, and the potential threats.

Security Basics

Before I dive into the guts of security, you should be familiar with the fundamental jobs that a ...

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