Cross-site request forgery, also known as a one-click attack or session riding and abbreviated as CSRF (sometimes pronounced sea-surf) or XSRF, is a type of malicious exploit of a website whereby unauthorized commands are transmitted from a user that the website trusts. Unlike cross-site scripting (XSS), which exploits the trust a user has for a particular site, CSRF exploits the trust that a site has in a user's browser.

Bitmask is a technique used to isolate specific bits in a byte in order to work only on the desired ones. They are used in IP addresses to separate the network prefix and the host number for example.

The CompareTo method is found in the .NET Framework and Java and imposes the natural ordering of a class. This is done by returning a negative integer, zero, or a positive integer as the instance of the implementing class is less than, equal to, or greater than the object it is compared to.

Programming questions about scripting the Inkscape vector-graphics application, e.g. using the Inkscape CLI as part of a graphics conversion workflow. Questions about installing the application should go on Super User. Questions about using the application should go on Graphic Design.

This tag refers to the process of removing or deleting data, text, files, or memory.

OTP is a set of useful middle-ware, libraries and tools written in Erlang. It is an integral part of the open source distribution of Erlang. (For the one-time passwords, use [tag:one-time-password])

VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution for the Joomla! Content Management System. Virtuemart questions can also be asked on https://joomla.stackexchange.com

A Here-document is a special syntax of writing literal strings in sourcecode, used by different programming languages.

FitNesse is an acceptance testing framework.

Authlogic is a clean, simple, and unobtrusive ruby authentication solution.

Use this tag for questions about JavaScript functions that run after the page is loaded.