Basically, your friend is right. But simply hashing the password on the client side is only just better than submitting it as plain text to the server. Someone, who can listen for your plain text passwords is certainly also able to listen for hashed passwords, and use these captured hashes him/herself to authenticate against your … Read more
Let’s look at one of the most popular SPA sites, GMail. 1. SPA is extremely good for very responsive sites: Server-side rendering is not as hard as it used to be with simple techniques like keeping a #hash in the URL, or more recently HTML5 pushState. With this approach the exact state of the web … Read more
I’d check out window.onerror Example: window.onerror = function(message, url, lineNumber) { //save error and send to server for example. return true; }; Keep in mind that returning true will prevent the firing of the default handler, and returning false will let the default handler run.
As of jQuery 1.5, there is a headers hash you can pass in as follows: $.ajax({ url: “/test”, headers: {“X-Test-Header”: “test-value”} }); From http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax: headers (added 1.5): A map of additional header key/value pairs to send along with the request. This setting is set before the beforeSend function is called; therefore, any values in the … Read more
Your code is split into two entirely separate parts, the server side and the client side. | ———-> HTTP request | +————–+ | +————–+ | | | | | | browser | | | web server | | (JavaScript) | | | (PHP etc.) | | | | | | +————–+ | +————–+ | client … Read more
You can do this in native JavaScript. You’ll have to parse your data into correct CSV format as so (assuming you are using an array of arrays for your data as you have described in the question): const rows = [ [“name1”, “city1”, “some other info”], [“name2”, “city2”, “more info”] ]; let csvContent = “data:text/csv;charset=utf-8,”; … Read more
Simple solution for HTML5 ready browsers… function download(filename, text) { var element = document.createElement(‘a’); element.setAttribute(‘href’, ‘data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,’ + encodeURIComponent(text)); element.setAttribute(‘download’, filename); element.style.display = ‘none’; document.body.appendChild(element); element.click(); document.body.removeChild(element); } form * { display: block; margin: 10px; } <form onsubmit=”download(this[‘name’].value, this[‘text’].value)”> <input type=”text” name=”name” value=”test.txt”> <textarea name=”text”></textarea> <input type=”submit” value=”Download”> </form> Usage download(‘test.txt’, ‘Hello world!’);