ESAPI JavaScript Readme

JavaScript Edition of the OWASP ESAPI Toolkit - Alpha Quality

• The JavaScript version of ESAPI is being lead by Chris Schmidt.
• We are seeking organizations willing to pilot ESAPI and work with us to make this library better. Please contact Chris for more information.
• If you're interested in application security, please join the OWASP ESAPI Developer mailing list and help make ESAPI better!
• If you have questions about using ESAPI, please post to the OWASP ESAPI Users mailing list.

Welcome to the ESAPI JavaScript Edition

This document provides information about the JavaScript Edition of OWASP ESAPI. The topics below cover system requirements, additional product information, and application notes. For information about the new features of this release, known issues, resolved issues, and limitations, refer to the Release notes.

• Javascript-based ESAPI: An In-Depth Overview Media:ESAPI4JS-Marcus.Niemietz.pdf

Current Releases

• ESAPI4JS 0.1.3

Previous Releases

• ESAPI4JS 0.1.2

For all downloads and project files, please click here

• Problems with the ESAPI may be reported here

ESAPI SVN Repository
Checkout ESAPI source from its home on Google code

System Requirements

Any webserver that has approximately 200 kilobytes of available disk space, and properly supports JavaScript, such as Apache or Internet Information Services (IIS).

There are no settings that are required to be set correctly in your properties files to use ESAPI.

Browser Compatibility

• Tested in:
  • Linux
    • Chrome 3.0, Firefox 3.0-3.5
  • Windows
    • Chrome 3.0, Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7.0

If you would like to test in additional browsers, please let me know

Dependencies

• Reference API
  • Log4js

• Unit Tests
  • JSUnit

Roadmap

Coming soon!