Glossary¶
- Accessibility
Accessibility means that the technology is developed so that people with disabilities can use them. It also benefits people without disabilities, such as people using devices with small screens or using slow Internet connection.
In this document, accessibility usually refers to the latter sense.
- Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI)
ASGI is a spiritual successor to WSGI, the long-standing Python standard for compatibility between web servers, frameworks, and applications.
WSGI succeeded in allowing much more freedom and innovation in the Python web space, and ASGI’s goal is to continue this onward into the land of asynchronous Python.
- Branch coverage
A coverage criteria where each control structure’s branch has been executed by the test suite.
- Cluster
A set of machines that are connected and work together to be viewed as a single system.
- Cross-site scripting (XSS) attack
Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a code injection attack where the attacker inserts client-side scripts into web pages.
- Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack
Denial of Service (DoS) attack is an attack where the attacker overloads the system with requests. DDoS is the distributed DoS attack, that is, the requests are flooding from multiple sources.
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
An application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems 1.
- InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)
IPFS is a protocol and peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. It uses content-addressing to uniquely identify each file in a global namespace connecting all computing devices.
- Metadata
Data that describes the information rather than containing the information itself. This can include primary key of a table, creation date, etc.
- Participant
People who participate in a project.
- Request
A HTTP message from a client to a server including the protocol version in use, the method to be applied to and the identifier of the resource 2.
- Response
A HTTP messge a server responds with, after receiving and interpreting a request message 3.
- SQL injection
SQL injection is an attack where a malicious piece of code is passed in an SQL query, which changes the query to the query the attacker wants.
For example, the attacker may try to create a student with name
John' DROP TABLE Students; --and delete the whole table in doing so, if the vulnerability is not handled.- Supervisor
A person, normally a lecturer, that supervises, supports, and evaluate one or several project groups.