AsyncHttpEvalRequest: A New Primitive for Downloading Web Applications Incrementally and Securely

Author

Kuuskeri, Janne ; Mikkonen, Tommi ; Taivalsaari, Antero

Author_Institution

Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland

fYear

2009

fDate

27-29 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

80

Lastpage

86

Abstract

The evolution of the World Wide Web has progressed from simple, classic Web pages with text and static images only to Web 2.0 pages with rich multimedia content, mashups and desktop-style applications. The cornerstone of Web 2.0 technologies is an API called XMLHttpRequest - an interface that allows network requests to be performed asynchronously without blocking the user interface of the Web browser. In this paper we introduce a new operation called AsyncHttpEvalRequest that is the logical extension of XMLHttpRequest for Web applications. The main benefit of the new operation is that it allows large Web applications to be downloaded incrementally and more securely.

Keywords

Internet; application program interfaces; online front-ends; security of data; user interfaces; API; AsyncHttpEvalRequest; Web 2.0 pages; Web application downloading security; Web browser; World Wide Web; XMLHttpRequest; desktop-style applications; downloading security; rich multimedia content; user interface; Application software; Cascading style sheets; Collaboration; Graphics; HTML; Java; Software engineering; User interfaces; Web pages; Web sites; AsyncHttpEvalRequest; Web applications; XMLHttpRequest; asynchronous networking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, 2009. SEAA '09. 35th Euromicro Conference on

Conference_Location

Patras

ISSN

1089-6503

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3784-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SEAA.2009.35

Filename

5349861