HTTPB: Integrate Blockchain into HTTP, A Method to Increase Democracy in E-Commerce Online Review System
Ziqi Yan, Imran Khan, Ian J. Mackie · 2022
Existing e-commerce online review systems face several issues, including undemocratic behaviours of e-commerce companies to delete and or modify user reviews.A systematic literature review is carried out by us to investigate the problem.A peer-to-peer online review system is proposed based on Blockchain technology.Literature study reveals few other researchers have attempted to use Blockchain technology for the similar problem.These existing studies have a few limitations and have ignored some essential elements of reviews.We have extended work to fill the gap in the knowledge.In our solution, reviews need to be uploaded through HTTPB (Blockchain + HTTP) protocol.Reviews will go to the smart contract first, and the hash value will be recorded on Blockchain.Afterward, reviews will be passed through HTTP protocol and stored on centralised server of e-commerce websites.A comparison of hash values will confirm whether reviews have been tampered with or not.Our solution has sought a middle ground to ensure data access control and protect e-commerce platforms' digital assets compared with other blockchain-based solutions.