Day 2 of Writing: Security Chapter
I need a good article or book to quote regarding HTTPS versus HTTP performance. I know that HTTPS is slower than HTTP, but I'd like some hard numbers if any of your fellas know of any. Today's been interesting, I feel like I've been writing all day, but I've only managed to get about 3-4 pages done. Damn...
The frustrating part is that I have to qualify everything and remember back to when I first started messing with security in web applications, when I first configured SSL in Tomcat, when I first tried to get form-based authentication on iPlanet (what a CF that was)! I'm hoping the audience for this book is fairly J2EE-fluent, but I feel that there are probably going to be a fair amount of newbies as well. It'd be interesting to write a book for the java.bloggers community. I could skip half the fluff and get right to the stuff - the actual code!
Oh well, tomorrow should be better, I'll be adding/verifying code examples, and divulging all the cool tricks I've learned over the years. I've been doing all this authoring on OS X, and I have to say it's been an enjoyable experience. iTunes cranked, a set of nice Sony (MDR-V600) headphones and enough caffeine (not to mention deadline-adrenaline) to stunt Abbie's growth.