web dev terms
90 glossary entries tagged web dev, listed alphabetically.
- :-) (the first emoticon)
- "incognito mode makes you anonymous"
- "the padlock means the site is safe"
- 418 I'm a teapotHyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP)
- a patchy server
- ACSAssertion Consumer Service
- AJAXAsynchronous JavaScript and XML
- AltaVista
- Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
- Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
- APIApplication Programming Interface
- APIsec UniversityAPIsec University (free API security training)
- Atwood's law
- Babel Fish
- Base64
- browser fingerprinting
- C10K problem
- cache-control
- CAPTCHACompletely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
- CDATAcharacter data (XML)
- Code Red
- Content Security PolicyContent Security Policy (CSP)
- cookie banner
- CORSCross-Origin Resource Sharing
- CORS preflight
- CRUDCreate, Read, Update, Delete
- CSRFCross-Site Request Forgery
- dark launch
- DEFLATE, gzip and zlib
- encoding
- ETag
- file inclusionLFI and RFI
- graceful degradation
- GraphQL
- HSTSHTTP Strict Transport Security
- HTTP QUERY method
- HTTP/2
- HTTP/3
- Hyperlink
- idempotency key
- idempotent
- identity provider
- IISInternet Information Services
- JWTJSON Web Token
- leaky abstraction
- left-pad
- MDNMozilla Developer Network
- MIMEMultipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
- OAuthOAuth 2.0
- OIDCOpenID Connect
- Open GraphOpen Graph protocol
- OpenToken
- OWASPOpen Worldwide Application Security Project
- PageRank
- Poe's law
- rate limiting
- ReDoSRegular expression Denial of Service
- RESTRepresentational State Transfer
- safe method
- same-origin policy
- Scooter (AltaVista's crawler)
- service provider
- session
- six degrees of separation
- SOAPSimple Object Access Protocol
- SPNEGO
- SQL injectionSQL injection (SQLi)
- SSRF
- the 'room 404' myth
- the Fail Whale
- the first .com domain
- the first banner ad
- the first tweet
- the first web page
- the happy path
- the Mother of All Demos
- the north star metric
- the principle of least astonishment
- the Slashdot effect
- the Trojan Room coffee pot
- Tim Berners-Lee
- TL;DRtoo long; didn't read
- tracking pixel
- user agent
- VLC (VideoLAN Client)
- webhook
- WebSocket
- WSWebSocket
- XSSCross-Site Scripting
- XXEXML External Entity