Methods, systems, and products for verifying integrity of web-server served content

• US 20050246448A1
• Filed: 03/30/2004
• Published: 11/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hill, Timothy A., Patrawala, Zakir, Sankaran, Karthiksundar
• Granted Patent: US 7,363,364 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/229
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for verifying the integrity of web server content. One method receives results from a client-resident integrity program operating on a client computer. The client-resident integrity program verifies integrity of a web resource communicated from a web server to the client computer. The method also receives results from a server-resident integrity program operating on the web server. The results are then merged and presented at a computer system.

Claims

1. A method, comprising the steps of:

receiving results from a client-resident integrity program operating on a client computer, the client-resident integrity program verifying integrity of a web resource communicated from a web server to the client computer;

receiving results from a server-resident integrity program operating on the web server;

merging the results of the client-resident integrity program and the server-resident integrity program; and

presenting the merged results at a computer system.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of receiving the results from the client-resident integrity program comprises receiving an error message indicating existence of a partial page error.

3. A method according to claim 2, further comprising the step of reporting the error message.

4. A method according to claim 2, further comprising the step of sorting the merged results according to the error message.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein if the size of the web resource is smaller than expected, then reporting an error.

6. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of reporting a referring Uniform Resource Locator associated with the web resource.

7. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of sorting the merged results according to a referring Uniform Resource Locator associated with the web resource.

8. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of sorting the merged results according to a requested Uniform Resource Locator associated with the web resource.

9. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of sorting the merged results according to a failed communication link to the web server.

10. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of sorting the results from the server-resident integrity program according to a requested Uniform Resource Locator associated with the web resource.

11. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of receiving a status code associated with the web resource.

12. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of sorting the merged results according to a status code associated with the web resource.

13. A method according to claim 1, wherein if a requested Uniform Resource Locator is erroneous, then reporting a referring Uniform Resource Locator.

14. A method according to claim 1, wherein if the web resource contains no data, then reporting a requested Uniform Resource Locator.

15. A method according to claim 1, wherein if the web resource contains no data, then reporting a referring Uniform Resource Locator.

16. A system, comprising:

an Integrity Module stored in a memory device, and a processor communicating with the memory device;

the Integrity Module receiving results from a client-resident integrity program operating on a client computer, the client-resident integrity program verifying integrity of a web resource communicated from a web server to the client computer, the Integrity Module also receiving results from a server-resident integrity program operating on the web server, the Integrity Module merging the results of the client-resident integrity program and the server-resident integrity program and presenting the merged results at a computer system.

17. A computer program product, comprising:

a computer-readable medium; and

an Integrity Module stored on the computer-readable medium, the Integrity Module receiving results from a client-resident integrity program operating on a client computer, the client-resident integrity program verifying integrity of a web resource communicated from a web server to the client computer, the Integrity Module also receiving results from a server-resident integrity program operating on the web server, the Integrity Module merging the results of the client-resident integrity program and the server-resident integrity program and presenting the merged results at a computer system.