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

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Dynamic Web Content

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Basics of server side web programming

become aware of the possibilities to create dynamic content within a webserver
see that you don't have to implement a webserver to be able to serve dynamic content
understand some main issues like blocking I/O that one should keep in mind when doing server side programming
see how the web server is the entry point for web applications
whitelisting of input vs blacklisting and a method of preventing XSS

Forms and HTTP post request

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

Handling a post request in a Java Servlet

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

Client side JavaScript

understand how javascript was supposed to support people to fill out web forms

understand the issues and disadvantages that arise with javascript

Ajax and the XMLHttpRequest class

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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