HTTP basic authentication with headers is one of the username & password based methods of securing access to web sites, web applications and web services. Purpose of this article is to analyze the details of this approach by explaining how to encode a pair of username & password as a basic authentication header string as well as to decode the authentication string generated from the web clients like browser or soapIU; and the example is implemented with Java. Read more »Labels: Security, Tech, Web application, Web services
Wikipedia, the One-stop website for most of the queries ranging from a tiny cell to the universe has a notice on top of the site claiming the 'Terms of use' (ToU) is changing tomorrow. Even though I am a regular user of Wikipedia, was never worried to read their 'ToU'. However this noticed lead me to compare the 
Google has decided to shutdown Buzz in few weeks raising the closed product count to around 20. With the growing popularity of GMail, Google introduced Buzz in February 2010 as an integrated product to GMail which could easily attract users into Google's Social Networking product. 
Kamal Mettananada is a software engineer, Java explorer & author of Digizol, blog with computer related articles, tutorials, tips and many other information.
