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

• US 7,809,823 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2008
• Issued: 10/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hill, Timothy A., Patrawala, Zakir, Sankaran, Karthiksundar
• Primary Examiner(s): Eng; David Y
• Application Number:
  US12/106,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20080222459A1
• Time in Patent Office: 897 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 714/2
• 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. A client-side integrity verification of a web page communicated from a web server to a client computer is received. A server-side error in the web page is received from the web server. The results of the client-side integrity verification are merged with the server-side error. The results of the client-side integrity verification and the server-side error are presented.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a client-side integrity verification of a web page performed by a client computer;

receiving a server-side error in the web page identified by a web server;

merging the client-side integrity verification with the server-side error;

sorting the merger of the client-side integrity verification and the server-side error to indicate a partial page error in the web page; and

presenting the merger of the client-side integrity verification and the server-side error to identify a problem in the web page.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising indicating an existence of a partial page error in the web page.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising sorting the merger according to a referring Uniform Resource Locator.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising sorting the merger of the client-side integrity verification and the server-side error according to a requested Uniform Resource Locator.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising presenting an error that indicates a failed communication link with the web server.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising sorting the merger of the client-side integrity verification and the server-side error according to the server-side error.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising reporting an error when a file size of the web page is smaller than expected.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising sorting the merger of the client-side integrity verification and the server-side error according to a status code that indicates an error.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising sorting the merger of the client-side integrity verification and the server-side error according to a referring Uniform Resource Locator when a requested Uniform Resource Locator is erroneous.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising sorting the merger of the client-side integrity verification and the server-side error according to a referring Uniform Resource Locator when the web resource contains no data, indicating a requested Uniform Resource Locator is erroneous.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising presenting the merger of the client-side integrity verification and the server-side error according to at least one of the referring Uniform Resource Locator, an error message, a file size of the web resource, and a status code.

12. A system, comprising:

a processor executing code stored in memory that causes the processor to;

receive a client-side integrity verification of a web page performed by a client computer;

receive a server-side error in the web page identified by a web server;

merge the client-side integrity verification with the server-side error;

sort the merger of the client-side integrity verification and the server-side error to indicate a partial page error in the web page; and

display the merger of the client-side integrity verification and the server-side error to resolve the partial page error.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the code further causes the processor to retrieve a logical rule describing the partial page error.

14. The system according to claim 12, wherein the code further causes the processor to sort the merger according to a referring Uniform Resource Locator.

15. The system according to claim 12, wherein the code further causes the processor to sort the merger according to a requested Uniform Resource Locator.

16. The system according to claim 12, wherein the code further causes the processor to present an error that indicates a failed communication link with the web server.

17. The system according to claim 12, wherein the code further causes the processor to sort the merger according to the server-side error.

19. The computer readable medium according to claim 17, further comprising instructions for reporting an error when a file size of the web page is smaller than expected.

20. The computer readable medium according to claim 17, further comprising instructions for sorting the merger according to a status code that indicates an error.

21. The computer readable medium according to claim 17, further comprising instructions for sorting the merger according to a referring Uniform Resource Locator when a requested Uniform Resource Locator is erroneous.

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

receiving a client-side integrity verification of a web page performed by a client computer;

receiving a server-side error in the web page identified by a web server;

merging the client-side integrity verification with the server-side error;

sorting the merger of the client-side integrity verification and the server-side error to indicate a partial page error in the web page; and

display the merger of the client-side integrity verification and the server-side error to resolve the partial page error.