Month: October 2010
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Prototyping a todo list in Google App Engine
In this walkthrough we’ll build a simple to-do list on Google App Engine so that users can log in and add new items to the to-do list, which are stored and displayed back to them later. (Much of this walkthrough follows the Getting Started documentation from the Google App Engine docs, and I’ll refer to…
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Working around the same-origin policy
As part of the basic security model of the Web, sites can’t usually make requests to pages on other domains — if they could, then just visiting any random site on the Web having recently logged in to your email could reveal the entire contents of your email to an attacker! In class we briefly…