Glossary for the webApp.secure performance tests

Terms we used in our webApp.secure performance tests paper are defined here.

DMZ

Demilitarized zone. A DMZ is a network area that sits between an organization's internal network and an external network, usually the Internet. Access from the DMZ to the internal zone is as restricted as possible. In our tests, only the proxy was able to access well-defined targets in the internal zone from the DMZ.

HTTP

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. The communications protocol that enables Web browsing.

HTTPS

A Web protocol for secure transactions that encrypts and decrypts user page requests and pages returned by the Web server.