CHAPTER 15
Web Components
In this chapter, you will
- Learn about the SSL/TLS protocol suite
- Study web applications, plug-ins, and associated security issues
- Understand secure file transfer options
- Discover directory usage for data retrieval
- Study scripting and other Internet functions that present security concerns
- Learn the use of cookies to maintain parameters between web pages
- Examine web-based application security issues
The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee to give physicists a convenient method of exchanging information. What began in 1990 as a physics tool in the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) has grown into a complex system that is used by millions of computer users for tasks from e-commerce, to e-mail, ...
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