Web Science/Part1: Foundations of the web/Dynamic Web Content

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Dynamic Web Content

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  1. become aware of the possibilities to create dynamic content within a webserver
  2. see that you don't have to implement a webserver to be able to serve dynamic content
  3. understand some main issues like blocking I/O that one should keep in mind when doing server side programming
  4. see how the web server is the entry point for web applications
  5. whitelisting of input vs blacklisting and a method of preventing XSS
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  • understand the basics of HTTP POST requests
  • become aware of security issues while transfering data to a web server
  • be able to create a simple web form in HTML
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  • See how a POST request is handled in a Java Servlet
  • get to know the Request object
  • see how a data base query and more advanced technology can be included to a servlet
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  • understand how javascript was supposed to support people to fill out web forms
  • understand the issues and disadvantages that arise with javascript
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  • be aware of JavaScript APIs
  • know some of the standard JavaScript libraries
  • be able to understand the concept of Ajax requests.
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