Chapter 21. JavaScript Security
Because
of the wide-open nature of the Internet, security is an important
issue. This is particularly true with the introduction of languages
such as Java and JavaScript, because they allow executable content to
be embedded in otherwise static web pages. Since loading a web page
can cause arbitrary code to be executed on your computer, stringent
security precautions are required to prevent malicious code from
doing any damage to your data or your privacy. This chapter discusses
Internet security issues related to JavaScript. Note that this
chapter does not cover any of the many other
issues involved in web security, such as the authentication and
cryptographic technologies used to keep the contents of web documents
and HTML forms private while they traverse the Web.
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Errata
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition
By
David Flanagan
Publisher
: O'Reilly
Pub Date
: November 2001
ISBN
: 0-596-00048-0
Pages
: 936
Slots
: 1
This fourth edition of the definitive reference to
JavaScript, a scripting language that can be embedded
directly in web pages, covers the latest version of the
language, JavaScript 1.5, as supported by Netscape 6 and
Internet Explorer 6. The book also provides complete
coverage of the W3C DOM standard (Level 1 and Level 2),
while retaining material on the legacy Level 0 DOM for
backward compatibility.