Access source control of resources within standard request-response protocols

• US 6,449,633 B1
• Filed: 07/26/1999
• Issued: 09/10/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Hebenthal, Douglas C., Van, Van C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Etienne, Ario
• Application Number:
  US09/360,994
• Time in Patent Office: 1,142 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/200, 709/201, 709/206, 709/207, 709/217, 709/218, 709/219, 709/220, 709/225, 709/229, 709/230, 709/249, 707/1-4, 707/9-10, 707/100-102, 707/200, 707/500-501, 707/513
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99939 Privileged access

Abstract

Access source control of resources within standard request-response protocols such as HTTP is disclosed. In one embodiment, the server receives a request, and determines whether a TRANSLATE header of the request specifies TRUE or FALSE. If the former, the server generates and returns the response to the resource. If the latter, the server determines whether an access source bit controlling access to the source of the resource is turned on. If it is, then the source can be accessed by the client; that is, in one embodiment, the source is returned. Otherwise, in one embodiment, an error message is returned.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a request for application against a resource, the resource having at least a source, the request having a TRANSLATE header including a FALSE flag to indicate that the source is wanted;

determining whether an access source bit for the source is turned on; and

,

upon determining that the access source bit for the source is turned on, outputting the source for the resource according to a predetermined transport protocol.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined transport protocol comprises HTTP (HyperText Transport Protocol).

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising, otherwise, outputting an “

access denied”

error.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the access source bit is stored in a metabase for the resource.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein at least one of a read bit and a write bit for the source is also stored in the metabase.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the access source bit is additive with the at least one of a read bit and a write bit for the source.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting the source comprises outputting the source further according to a predetermined markup language.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the predetermined markup language comprises eXtensible Markup Language (XML).

9. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting the source comprises submitting the source from a server to a client over a network.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the network comprises one of the Internet, an intranet, and an extranet.

11. A machine-readable medium having instructions stored thereon for execution by a processor to perform a method comprising:

receiving at a server a request for application against a resource, the resource having at least a source, the request having a TRANSLATE header including a FALSE flag to indicate that the source is wanted;

determining at the server whether an access source bit for the source is turned on; and

,

upon determining that the access source bit for the source is turned on, submitting from the server the source for the resource according to a predetermined markup language and according to a predetermined transport protocol over a network.

12. The medium of claim 11, wherein the predetermined markup language comprises eXtensible Markup Language (XML), and the predetermined transport protocol comprises HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP).

13. The medium of claim 11, wherein the network comprises one of:

the Internet, an intranet, and an extranet.

14. The medium of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises, otherwise, outputting an “

access denied”

error.

15. A server computer comprising:

a processor;

a computer-readable medium;

data stored on the medium and representing a metabase, the metabase include an access source bit for a source of a resource; and

,

a computer program executed by the processor from the medium to determine whether the access source bit for the source is turned on in response to having received a request for application against the resource having a TRANSLATE header including a FALSE flag to indicate that the source is wanted, and upon determining that the access source bit for the source is turned on, outputting the source for the resource according to a predetermined transport protocol and according to a predetermined markup language.

16. The server computer of claim 15, wherein the predetermined markup language comprises eXtensible Markup Language (XML), and the predetermined transport protocol comprises HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP).

17. The server computer of claim 15, wherein the metabase further includes at least one of a read bit and a write bit for the source.

18. The server computer of claim 17, wherein the access source bit is additive with the at least one of a read bit and a write bit for the source.

19. A computerized system comprising:

a client to generate a request for application against a resource having at least a source, to specify a TRANSLATE header with the request including a FALSE flag to indicate that the source is wanted, and to send the request according to a predetermined markup language and according to a predetermined transport protocol; and

,

a server, communicatively coupled to the client, to send the source according to the predetermined markup language and according to the predetermined transport protocol upon determining that an access source bit for the resource is turned on.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein at least one of the server and the client comprise a computer-readable medium and a processor coupled thereto.

21. The system of claim 19, further comprising a network, such that the server is communicatively coupled to the client over the network.

22. The system of claim 19, wherein the predetermined markup language comprises eXtensible Markup Language (XML), and the predetermined transport protocol