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Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0) is a version of the SAML standard for exchanging authentication and authorization identities between security domains.SAML 2.0 is an XML-based protocol that uses security tokens containing assertions to pass information about a principal (usually an end user) between a SAML authority, named an Identity Provider, and a SAML consumer, named a ...
XMLHttpRequest ( XHR) is an API in the form of a JavaScript object whose methods transmit HTTP requests from a web browser to a web server. [1] The methods allow a browser-based application to make a fine-grained server call and store the results in XMLHttpRequest's responseText attribute. [2] XMLHttpRequest is a component of Ajax programming.
LDAP injection. In computer security, LDAP injection is a code injection technique used to exploit web applications which could reveal sensitive user information or modify information represented in the LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) data stores. [1] [2] [3] LDAP injection exploits a security vulnerability in an application by ...
Research into deployments of multi-factor authentication schemes has shown that one of the elements that tend to impact the adoption of such systems is the line of business of the organization that deploys the multi-factor authentication system. Examples cited include the U.S. government, which employs an elaborate system of physical tokens ...
Polyfill (programming) In software development, a polyfill is code that implements a feature of the development environment that does not natively support the feature. Most often, it refers to JavaScript code that implements an HTML5 or CSS web standard, either an established standard (supported by some browsers) on older browsers, or a ...
FOAF (an acronym of friend of a friend) is a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects. Anyone can use FOAF to describe themselves. FOAF allows groups of people to describe social networks without the need for a centralised database. FOAF is a descriptive vocabulary expressed ...
FastAPI is a modern web framework first released in 2018 for building RESTful APIs in Python. [3] It is used for building APIs with Python 3.8+ based on standard Python-type hints. FastAPI is based on Pydantic and uses type hints to validate, serialize and deserialize data. It also automatically generates OpenAPI documentation for APIs built ...
API key. An application programming interface ( API) key is a unique identifier used to authenticate and authorize a user, developer, or calling program to an API. [1] However, they are typically used to authenticate and authorize a project with the API rather than a human user. [1] [2]