Recording medium storing control program and communication system

• US 20070283421A1
• Filed: 11/29/2006
• Published: 12/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Hirose, Yoichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,056,125 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32

Abstract

A computer readable recording medium storing a control program causing a computer to execute a process in which an authentication proxy terminal carries out authentication on behalf of a client terminal using a browser to one or more server terminals, the process which includes: performing user authentication between the client terminal and the authentication proxy terminal before an access from the client terminal using the browser to the server terminal; if the user authentication is properly performed, executing proxy authentication to the server terminal on behalf of the client terminal; and sending to the client terminal a script file that controls the browser so as to access the server terminal without involving the authentication proxy terminal at a time of the access using the browser from the client terminal to the server terminal after the proxy authentication is properly executed.

Claims

1. A computer readable recording medium storing a control program causing a computer to execute a process in which an authentication proxy terminal carries out authentication on behalf of a client terminal using a browser to one or more server terminals, the process comprising:

performing user authentication between the client terminal and the authentication proxy terminal before an access from the client terminal using the browser to the server terminal;

if the user authentication is properly performed, executing proxy authentication to the server terminal on behalf of the client terminal; and

sending to the client terminal a script file that controls the browser so as to access the server terminal without involving the authentication proxy terminal at a time of the access using the browser from the client terminal to the server terminal after the proxy authentication is properly executed.

2. The computer readable recording medium according to claim 1, the process comprising:

sending to the client terminal the script file that controls the browser so as to access the server terminal via the proxy server at the time of the access using the browser from the client terminal to the server terminal after the proxy authentication is properly executed.

3. The computer readable recording medium according to claim 1, the process further comprising:

generating the script file, and

sending the generated script file upon request from the client terminal.

4. The computer readable recording medium according to claim 2, the process further comprising:

generating the script file, and

sending the generated script file upon request from the client terminal.

5. A computer readable recording medium storing a control program causing a computer to execute a process in which an authentication proxy terminal carries out authentication on behalf of a client terminal using a browser to one or more server terminals, the process comprising:

sending a script file that controls the browser so as to access the authentication proxy terminal at a time of authentication from the client terminal using the browser, and so as to access the server terminal without involving the authentication proxy terminal at a time of other access than the access for the authentication;

performing user authentication between the client terminal and the authentication proxy terminal before the access from the client terminal using the browser to the server terminal; and

if the user authentication is properly performed, executing proxy authentication to the server terminal on behalf of the client terminal.

6. A communication system, comprising:

a client terminal that accesses, using a browser, one or more server terminals; and

an authentication proxy terminal that performs authentication to the server terminals on behalf of the client terminal,

the authentication proxy terminal including;

an authentication section that performs user authentication with the client terminal before the access from the client terminal using the browser to the server terminals;

a proxy authentication section that executes proxy authentication for the server terminals on behalf of the client terminal, if the user authentication is properly performed; and

a sending section that sends to the client terminal a script file that controls the browser so as to access the server terminals without involving the authentication proxy terminal at a time of the access using the browser from the client terminal to the server terminals after the proxy authentication is properly executed,

wherein, the browser in the client terminal accesses the server terminals based on the script file.