Handling security for Flex and Silverlight in ASP.NET

Posted by: Al Pascual, on 22 Apr 2009 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

Silverlight and Flex are plug ins that run on the browser, their security model is quite similar to the JavaScript model, the browser will make the requests to the server. For this storing credential information or any other sensitive information is not the recommended option as any user can download the SWF file or XAP file and be able to look inside the code, as well all requests going to the server, without using https, will be able to be seen in text. For this server side should be used to protect...

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