Addressing Web 2.0 Scanning Challenges In AJAX And SOAP Technologies

Web 2.0 applications are a combination of several technologies such as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), Flash, JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Representational State Transfer (REST). All these technologies, along with cross-domain information access, contribute to the complexity of the application. We are seeing a shift towards empowerment of an end-user's browser by loading libraries. All these changes mean new scanning challenges for tools and professionals.

Our target application may be accessing RSS feeds from multiple sites, exchanging information with blogs using JSON, and communicating with a stock exchange portal's Web service over SOAP. All these services are bundled in the form of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using AJAX and/or Flash.

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