Ajax

Reduce your exposure to AJAX threats

Three-step guide Fundamentally, there’s nothing terribly new about the problems posed by Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) when it comes to security, we just need to apply some good old security principles to this new technology. The problems occur because, unfortunately, there are an awful lot of devils hidden inside the details. One major security … Continue reading »

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Streamline your search with Yahoo! Web Services and AJAX

Despite what you might read and hear about Google’s web dominance, this is not Google-owned world. Yahoo! may be playing second fiddle to the internet’s favorite search and ads service, but it still plays one hell of a tune in terms of numbers of users and the services it offers. If you use Yahoo! for … Continue reading »

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7 Deadly Sins of AJAX application development

At first blush, those pitfalls may seem avoidable through sheer common sense, and to a degree, that’s true. But AJAX apps bristle with architectural differences from its DHTML forebears. No matter how much common sense you bring to the application development task, it is still good to learn from the mistakes of those who have … Continue reading »

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