Delayed encoding of resource identifiers

• US 10,474,729 B2
• Filed: 01/12/2017
• Issued: 11/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Instart Logic Incorporated (Akamai Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Reshadi, Mehrdad, Gaunker, Rajaram, Kolam, Hariharan, Venkat, Raghu Batta
• Primary Examiner(s): Parry, Chris
• Assistant Examiner(s): Houlihan, Stephen J
• Application Number:
  US15/405,082
• Publication Number:
  US 20170169123A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,034 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/13 File access structures, e.g. distributed indices arrangements of input from, or output to, record carriers G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/16 File or folder operations, e.g. details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/164 File meta data generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/176 Support for shared access to files; File sharing support
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/94 Hypermedia Hyperlinking G06F40/134
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/64 Protecting data integrity, e.g. using checksums, certificates or signatures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2119 Authenticating web pages, e.g. with suspicious links
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/16 Obfuscation or hiding, e.g. involving white box
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/34 Encoding or coding, e.g. Huffman coding or error correction
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/601 Broadcast encryption
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/603 Digital right managament [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0414 during transmission, i.e. party's identity is protected against eavesdropping, e.g. by using temporary identifiers, but is known to the other party or parties involved in the communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/168 above the transport layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3236 using cryptographic hash functions

Abstract

A resource identifier to be encoded dynamically upon detection of a triggering event is identified. The resource identifier is allowed to remain not encoded prior to detection of the triggering event. The triggering event that will cause the resource identifier to be consumed by a web browser is detected. In response to detecting the triggering event, the resource identifier is encoded, and an encoded version of the resource identifier is provided for consumption by the web browser.

Claims

1. A method for encoding a resource identifier included in a web content, comprising:

identifying the resource identifier to be encoded dynamically upon detection of a triggering event;

allowing the resource identifier to remain not encoded prior to detection of the triggering event;

detecting the triggering event that will cause the resource identifier to be consumed by a web browser;

in response to detecting the triggering event, using a processor to encode the resource identifier and providing an encoded version of the resource identifier for consumption by the web browser; and

determining whether an undesired content blocker is operational at least in part by requesting content located at one or more test resource identifiers and determining whether any of the requests made using the one or more test resource identifiers has been blocked, and wherein the test resource identifiers are at least in part randomly generated by randomly selecting one or more entries in a group of URL portion entries known to be targeted by one or more content blockers and combining the selected URL portion entries with one or more entries in a group of keywords known to be targeted by the one or more content blockers.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the resource identifier is included in a webpage as a URI.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein allowing the resource identifier to remain not encoded prior to detection of the triggering event includes allowing the resource identifier to be utilized in a rendered webpage.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the resource identifier to be encoded dynamically upon detection of the triggering event includes identifying whether a utilization context of the resource identifier requires it to be consumed by the web browser without any associated triggering event.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the resource identifier to be encoded dynamically upon detection of the triggering event includes identifying whether the resource identifier is utilized in a context that requires a user action prior to initiating a request for content identified by the resource identifier.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the resource identifier to be encoded dynamically upon detection of the triggering event includes identifying that the resource identifier is a destination of a user selectable hyperlink.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the resource identifier to be encoded dynamically upon detection of the triggering event includes identifying a markup language tag associated with the resource identifier.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying that another resource identifier included in the web content is to be encoded without being triggered by any associated user triggering event.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein allowing the resource identifier to remain not encoded prior to detection of the triggering event includes registering an event listener associated with the resource identifier and configured to detect the triggering event selected for the resource identifier.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein allowing the resource identifier to remain not encoded prior to detection of the triggering event includes modifying the web content to insert code to detect the triggering event and dynamically encode the resource identifier.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the triggering event is associated with a user action.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting the triggering event that will cause the resource identifier to be consumed by the web browser includes detecting the triggering event that will cause the resource identifier to be utilized to request content identified by the resource identifier.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the encoded version of the resource identifier for consumption by the web browser includes providing the encoded version for use in a browser request for content located at the resource identifier.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising in the event it is determined that an undesired content blocker is operational, determining that a version of the web content that implements resource identifier encoding is to be utilized as opposed to a version of the web content that does not implement resource identifier encoding that would have been utilized in the event it was determined that any undesired content blocker is not operational.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising in the event it is determined that any undesired content blocker is not operational, determining that an initial version of the web content is to be reloaded to obtain a version of the web content that implements resource identifier encoding.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein a name of the resource identifier is encoded.

17. A system for encoding a resource identifier included in a web content, comprising:

a processor configured to;

identify the resource identifier to be encoded dynamically upon detection of a triggering event;

allow the resource identifier to remain not encoded prior to detection of the triggering event;

detect the triggering event that will cause the resource identifier to be consumed by a web browser;

in response to detecting the triggering event, encode the resource identifier and provide an encoded version of the resource identifier for consumption by the web browser;

determine whether an undesired content blocker is operational at least in part by requesting content located at one or more test resource identifiers and determine whether any of the requests made using the one or more test resource identifiers has been blocked, and wherein the test resource identifiers are at least in part randomly generated by randomly selecting one or more entries in a group of URL portion entries known to be targeted by one or more content blockers and combining the selected URL portion entries with one or more entries in a group of keywords known to be targeted by the one or more content blockers; and

a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.

18. A computer program product for encoding a resource identifier included in a web content, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:

identifying the resource identifier to be encoded dynamically upon detection of a triggering event;

allowing the resource identifier to remain not encoded prior to detection of the triggering event;

detecting the triggering event that will cause the resource identifier to be consumed by a web browser;

in response to detecting the triggering event, encoding the resource identifier and providing an encoded version of the resource identifier for consumption by the web browser; and

determining whether an undesired content blocker is operational at least in part by requesting content located at one or more test resource identifiers and determining whether any of the requests made using the one or more test resource identifiers has been blocked, and wherein the test resource identifiers are at least in part randomly generated by randomly selecting one or more entries in a group of URL portion entries known to be targeted by one or more content blockers and combining the selected URL portion entries with one or more entries in a group of keywords known to be targeted by the one or more content blockers.