Ramkumar K R

Error messages are quite annoying for any one, I am not an exception for it..

This is the latest one I received when I was testing a webservice client using PHP NuSOAP library.. Well my client’s webserver is still running on PHP4 so I cant use the built in SOAPClient for PHP5

I resolved this by modifying the usage of the NuSOAP soap client. Initially I tried a simple soap client when this error came, by when I tried the wsdl client, it worked fine. Change is only how you instantiate the soap client.

Well.. One of the security tests you need to do in your web application is to verify that it is free from cross site scripting vulnerability.

read more about cross site scripting (XSS) at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_site_scripting

Here is the simple test to verify whether your web form is vulnerable to XSS or not.

Just type in

<script>alert(“Testing for XSS….. And this form is vulnerable to XSS”);</script>

Submit the form. Upon submitting the form, if you are seeing a javascript alert saying “Testing for XSS….. And this form is vulnerable to XSS” , obviously your web form is not secure against XSS attacks !!