Developers of web applications have quite a few different kinds of "attacks" to worry about. I will try to describe the major categories I know of, including one which is "new" as of the past month or so.
The most venerable is the SQL-injection attack (and related attacks …
Posted Thu 09 October 2008 by mcherm in Uncategorized
In a previous post I wrote about how nearly all web applications built on Java servlets suffer from potential threading issues. Web browsers can make multiple simultaneous requests, which will result in multiple threads concurrently modifying the (not threadsafe) HTTPSession. Most people just ignore the problems (which strike rarely), some …
Posted Tue 07 October 2008 by mcherm in Programming
Web servers are inherently threaded applications: their primary purpose is to serve up a website or web application to a large number of users. Essentially all of the frameworks for creating web applications, such as Java's "servlet" specification and all of the structure built on top of it, provide built-in …
Posted Tue 23 September 2008 by mcherm in Programming
This post is mostly for my own use; it updates a previous posting with the details of exactly how I am sending out the email version of these blog postings.
I am sending email copies of the technical postings to this blog to an email list of people at my …
Posted Mon 15 September 2008 by mcherm in Uncategorized
Google has
released a new browser,
"Google Chrome". It features quite
a few innovations: some user interface innovations include tabs above
the menus and URL bar, a single field combining the URL and search
fields, search and status bars that disappear when not in use and a home
page showing …
Posted Mon 15 September 2008 by mcherm in Programming