1. Chapter 1 The Evolving Web

   1. The Rise of the Web

2. Chapter 2 Web Security

   1. Security Basics

   2. Risk Analysis

   3. Common Web Application Vulnerabilities

3. Chapter 3 Securing Web Technologies

   1. How Web Sites Communicate

   2. Browser Security

   3. Browser Plug-ins, Extensions, and Add-ons

4. Chapter 4 Protecting the Server

   1. Network Security

   2. Host Security

   3. Web Server Hardening

   4. Application Server Hardening

5. Chapter 5 A Weak Foundation

   1. HTTP Vulnerabilities

   2. The Threats

   3. JSON

   4. XML

   5. RSS

   6. Atom

   7. REST

6. Chapter 6 Securing Web Services

   1. Web Services Overview

   2. Security and Web Services

   3. Web Service Security

7. Chapter 7 Building Secure APIs

   1. Building Your Own APIs

   2. Preconditions

   3. Postconditions

   4. Invariants

   5. Security Concerns

   6. RESTful Web Services

8. Chapter 8 Mashups

   1. Web Applications and Open Internet APIs

   2. Wild Web 2.0

   3. Mashups and Security

   4. Open Versus Secure

   5. A Security Blanket

   6. Case Studies

1. Colophon

About the Author Christopher Wells has deployed security solutions in the health care, telecommunication, and financial industries, and he is currently employed as an Information Security Consultant for a major financial institution. He is an accomplished applications security architect with more than 10 years of application security experience. Christopher holds multiple security certifications including a Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP), and he holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota. Colophon The animal on the cover of Securing Ajax Applications is a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta). This is also sometimes known as the laughing hyena, due to its distinctive rallying call, which is said to sound similar to a human's laughter. This animal is native to Africa. It lives in a group, or "clan," of about 30 40 hyenas. The hyena is unique to carnivores in that the female is dominant over the male. In addition to having spots, this hyena's fur is varying shades of light brown. Its snout is dark, as is the tip of its tail. I's body slopes downward from the head, and its front legs are longer than the back legs. It has a large, extremely powerful jaw, which it uses as its foremost weapon when hunting prey. The hyena has a reputation as a scavenger, but this is actually incorrect. Although it does steal food from other animals, it is also a skilled hunter, able to target and kill even large animals such as zebras. There is no love lost between lions and hyenas, as they seem to have an inborn hatred of each other. Lions have been known to kill hyenas for sport, while hyenas prey on smaller lion adults and cubs. The cover image is from Wood's Illustrated Natural History. The cover font is Adobe ITC Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed.