Abstract
The paper focuses on security and performance concerns in mobile web development. The approach used in the study involved surveying journal publications to identify security and performance concerns. The paper highlights some of the contemporary issues currently being faced by application developers as they create, update and maintain mobile web applications including Cross-Site Scripting, Cookie hijacking/theft, location hijacking, history theft, behaviour analysis, session hijacking, API design, security and the type of web server used considered.
Highlights
It can be noted that given that mobile devices web applications are the topic of discussion, it is important to note that since mobile devices generally have the option of using metered connections to the internet, JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) based web-services are recommended over XML based web services because JSON web services use a smaller amount of text to represent the same data as an XML based service which is important in cases where end users may have to pay for their internet connectivity per megabyte
This paper has undertaken an analysis of challenges and open issues in security and performance concerns in mobile web design
The greatest concern for mobile web application design in terms of the web browser is that web applications may look different on devices having different screen sizes and a developer needs to keep this in mind when designing a web application
Summary
According to [1] “Mobile communication networks provide us flexibility for working at any time, nearly anywhere and in many forms.” It is with this in mind that mobile browsing has become more and more popular in recent years and as a result, the development of mobile web applications has become more and more popular. According to [1] “Mobile communication networks provide us flexibility for working at any time, nearly anywhere and in many forms.”. It is with this in mind that mobile browsing has become more and more popular in recent years and as a result, the development of mobile web applications has become more and more popular. As mobile web applications are being developed, performance and security need to be considered in the development process. This paper will focus on security and performance concerns in mobile web development. Issue Limited battery power and the ability to function in changing network conditions Un-validated input Weaknesses in the protocols used Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks Spoofing Stateless nature of web services Data transfer cost
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