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

• US 7,363,364 B2
• Filed: 03/30/2004
• Issued: 04/22/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: At&T Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hill, Timothy A., Patrawala, Zakir, Sankaran, Karthiksundar
• Primary Examiner(s): Eng; David Y.
• Application Number:
  US10/813,474
• Publication Number:
  US 20050246448A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,484 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 714/48, 714/712
• US Class Current: 709/223
• 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

verifying, at a client computer, integrity of a web page communicated from a web server to the client computer;

identifying, at the web server, a server-side error in the web page;

receiving results of the verification by the client computer;

receiving the server-side error;

merging the results of the verification with the server-side error; and

presenting the merged results at a computer system.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein receiving the results comprises receiving an error message indicating existence of a partial page error.

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

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

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

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

7. A method according to claim 1, further comprising sorting the merged results according to referring Uniform Resource Locator asscociated with the web page.

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

9. A method according to claim 1, further comprising 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 page.

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

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

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 page contains no data, then reporting a requested Uniform Resource Locator.

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

16. A system, comprising:

means for verifying, at a client computer, integrity of a web page communicated from a web server to the client computer, the verification comprising;

means for communicating with the web server specified by a Uniform Resource Locator from a configurable file providing user specified frequency and levels of analysis of starting web pages;

means for retrieving content specified by the Uniform Resource Locator;

if the content contains an additional link to another Uniform Resource Locator, then means for parsing the content to determine if the content contains an error message, the error message indicating existence of a partial page error;

means for identifying, at the web server, a server-side error in the web nage;

means for receiving results of the verification;

means for receiving the server-side error;

means for merging the results of the verification with the server-side error; and

means for presenting the merited results at a computer system.

17. A computer readable media storing processor executable instructions for performing a method, the method comprising:

verifying, at a client computer, integrity of a web page communicated from a web server to the client computer, the verification comprising;

communicating with the web server specified by a Uniform Resource Locator from a configurable file providing user specified frequency and levels of analysis of starting web pages;

retrieving content specified by the Uniform Resource Locator;

if the content contains an additional link to another Uniform Resource Locator, then parsing the content to determine if the content contains an error message, the error message indicating existence of a partial page error;

identifying, at the web server, a server-side error in the web page;

receiving results of the verification;

receiving the server-side error;

merging the results of the verification with the server-side error; and

presenting the merged results at a computer system.