MECHANISM FOR INSERTING TRUSTWORTHY PARAMETERS INTO AJAX VIA SERVER-SIDE PROXY

• US 20100082771A1
• Filed: 09/29/2008
• Published: 04/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sun Microsystems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Bissett, Robert, Murray, Gregory, Wood, Jamey
• Granted Patent: US 9,684,628 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A system for retrieving information from a remote server is disclosed. The system includes a browser having a webpage executing JavaScript adapted to communicate a request with client identifying information to a first server. The first server has a proxy adapted to dynamically insert information into the request received from the client and communicate the request with inserted information to a second server, whereby the request with inserted information is trusted by the second server. The second server and first server are each adapted to also provide a response to the request. A method of communicating in a networked environment is also disclosed.

Claims

1. A system for retrieving information from a remote server comprising a browser having a webpage executing JavaScript adapted to communicate a request with client identifying information to a first server, the first server having a proxy adapted to dynamically insert information into the request received from the client and communicate the request with inserted information to a second server, whereby the request with inserted information is trusted by the second server, the second server and first server each adapted to provide a response to the request.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the proxy is adapted to dynamically insert information into the request in the form of an additional parameter.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the proxy is adapted to dynamically insert information into the request in the form of a replacement of a parameter.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the proxy is adapted to dynamically insert a plurality of trustworthy parameters into the request.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the dynamically inserted information includes at least one of an arbitrary value, an attribute of the client and user identifying information.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first and second servers is a web server.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the second server is a remote server.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the browser executes JavaScript and the request is an AJAX request.

9. A system for communicating with a server comprising a client computer in communication with a first server and adapted to communicate a request to the first server the request including a first trustworthy parameter, the first server executing a proxy and being capable of inserting a second trustworthy parameter into the request received from the client computer and communicating the request with at least the second trustworthy parameter via proxy to a second server in communication with the first server.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the second trustworthy parameter is an additional parameter added to the request.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the second trustworthy parameter is a replacement of a parameter in the request.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein at least one of the first and second trustworthy parameters comprises at least one of an attribute of the client and user identifying information.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the first server is adapted to insert a plurality of first trustworthy parameters.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the second server is adapted to insert a plurality of second trustworthy parameters.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the second server is capable of serving a response to the first server and the first server is capable of serving the response to the client computer for rendering on the client computer.

16. The system of claim 9, wherein the client computer includes a browser executing JavaScript and the request is an AJAX request.

17. A server system comprising a first server adapted to communicate with a client computer and to receive a request from the client computer including a first trustworthy parameter, the first server executing a proxy and being capable of inserting a second trustworthy parameter into the request received from the client computer and communicating the request with at least the second trustworthy parameter via proxy to a second server in communication with the first server.

18. A method of communicating in a networked environment comprising a client computer communicating a request to an original server, the request including identifying information, the original server inserting at least one trustworthy parameter into the request and communicating the request with trustworthy parameter via proxy to a remote server, the remote server serving a response to the request to the original server and the original server serving the response to the client computer.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the client computer has a browser executing JavaScript, wherein JavaScript communicates the request to the original server.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the request is an AJAX request.