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Certificate authentication with jQuery's ajax() function

I need to sync with my server with the client certificate abc.pfx which is generated by the server using Ajax. How do I send my certificate with Ajax object. Can I do this certificate authentication ...
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When logging into a web page what exactly happens when a user types the wrong password?

I have two related questions as to what happens when a user tries to log in to a website If the entered password is wrong what should happen? I have two ideas: Redirect to a page saying "wrong ...
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HTTP Response Splitting

Is this apart of a HTTP Response Splitting attack ? Here below is some code that gets put into a web browser after clearing the url while on the website javascript: var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); ...
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Set Cookie in XHR response : How different browsers handle this?

If I send a XHR request to example.com and response has Set-Cookie: dummyCookie=dummy in response. How different browsers handle this? Does any version of any browser set the cookie for ...
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Without using SSL, what's the most secure way to make an AJAX request to a PHP page?

It was suggested over at stackoverflow that I try my question here. This is it verbatim: So, it's impossible to do AJAX requests securely without using SSL. I get it. You can either view-source the ...
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Is this jQuery ajax call vulnerable to XSS?

If somebody can edit $("#field").val(), can they change the url property here to point to another location? $.ajax({ url: "http://mywebsite/script?param=" + $("#field").val(), dataType: "jsonp", ...
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Secure jquery ajax calls from a non secure page

I could not find a clear answer, but if I have the following situation: I browse to a page let's say http://www.example.com/index.html Now I use a form on this page to do a postback with jquery's ...
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Access to other local files from a local HTML file

I tried this question on programmers site with no luck Do you see any reason to block a local html file from accessing another local files located in the same folder? I mean, if a user downloaded an ...