Definition of web-based application A web based application is a software package that can be accessed through the web browser.

The software 1 and database reside on a central server rather than being installed on the desktop system and is accessed over a network A web application is an application that is accessed over 2 a network such as the Internet or an intranet. An application that is usable only with an active Internet 3 connection and that uses HTTP as its primary communications protocol. Also called web application. 4

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A web application is any application that uses a web http://webtrends.about.com/od/webapplications/a browser as a client. /web_application.htm

A web-based application is a program you use on the http://www.vitaleffect.com/solutions/webbased_a 5 internet. Hotmail and Ebay are two excellent examples pplications/ of web-based applications. An example of web-based application Function of the application http://www.smashingapps.com/2008/07/11/21-online-free-web-based-applications-that-you-probablywould-love-to-use-every-day.html http://www.web20links.net/ http://www.labnol.org/internet/most-useful-web-applications/6278/

An example of programming language used to developed web-based application 1 PHP 2 ASP.NET 3 Ruby on Rails 4 Perl 5 ASP http://www.host-shopper.com/what-is-web-programming.html 6 CGI 7 Python 8 JSP 9 Java An example of DBMS used in the web-based application Microsoft SQL Server Oracle http://ftp.magicsoftware.com/www/help/ibolt/mergedProjects/IBO DB2 LTHELP/DBMS_List.htm DB2/400 Pervasive SQL An advantages of web-based application (compared to non web-based application) http://www.pssuk.com/AdvantagesWebApplications.htm http://www.dbnetsolutions.co.uk/Articles/BenefitsOfWebBasedApplications.aspx http://www.vinnylingham.com/top-20-reasons-why-web-apps-are-superior-to-desktop-apps.html

A vulnerability of web-based application 1 Remote code execution 2 SQL Injection 3 Format string vulnerabilities 4 Cross Site Scripting (XSS) 5 Username enumeration Information Leakage and Improper 6 Error Handling Broken Authentication and Session 7 Management 8 Malicious File Execution

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