Ajax for Web Application Developers

Chapter 23. Securing Your Application Ajax database interaction is extremely powerful and provides a lot of flexibility to web applications. Of course, with great power there are also great security risks. This chapter will explain what secu...

Security Holes Adding database interaction to an XHR exposes security holes that can allow malicious hackers to make requests to our server side. All they would need to know is the URL of the file in which to make the request. With the new debuggi...

Password-Protecting Ajax Requests Password-protecting Ajax requests is fairly simple because we could simply append an additional variable to the query string that represents a password and verify it on the server side. This would work fine, but c...

Verifying Passwords on the Server-Side To add a final layer of security to our Ajax applications, we will verify the unique passwords that we have created when we send them with the requests on the server side. We will create a method called ver...