Cross-protocol URL mapping

• US 7,809,858 B1
• Filed: 10/21/2003
• Issued: 10/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Brown, Darrick P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Srivastava; Vivek
• Assistant Examiner(s): Goodchild; William J
• Application Number:
  US10/689,860
• Time in Patent Office: 2,541 Days
• Field of Search: 709/245, 709/246
• US Class Current: 709/245
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]

Abstract

A system and method is described for mapping a first uniform resource locator (URL) for a file of a first protocol server to a second URL for the file of a second protocol server comprising capturing entry of the first URL, comparing the first URL to a base URL of the first protocol server, removing a portion of the first URL that does not match the base URL, obtaining a root directory of the file of the second protocol server, adding the portion of the first URL to the root directory to create the second URL.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

capturing entry of a first uniform resource locator (URL) for a file of a first protocol server;

comparing said first URL to a base URL of said first protocol server;

when a base portion of the first URL matches the base URL of the first protocol server, removing a portion of said first URL that does not match said base URL of the first protocol server;

obtaining a root directory of said file of a second protocol server;

adding said portion of said first URL to said root directory to create a second URL; and

retrieving said file using said second URL and providing said retrieved file to a web development environment for editing, wherein said web development environment provides a user interface that enables editing of a file.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

requesting a user for entry of said base URL of said first protocol server.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said root directory is obtained from a user.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said root directory is obtained automatically from the development environment.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said first protocol server and said second protocol server are located on a same physical computer system.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving via said user interface of said web development environment, user input editing the retrieved file.

7. A computer system configured to:

acquire entry of a first URL for a file on a first protocol server;

compare said first URL to a base URL of said first protocol server;

remove a non-matching part of said first URL responsive to said code for comparing when the first URL matches the base URL;

acquire a root directory for said file on a second protocol server;

concatenate said non-matching part of said first URL to said root directory to create a second URL of said second protocol server; and

retrieve the file using the second URL and provide the file to the web development environment, said web development environment providing a user interface that enables editing of the file.

8. The computer system of claim 7 further configured to:

prompt a user to enter said base URL of said first protocol server.

9. The computer system of claim 7 wherein said root directory is obtained from a user.

10. The computer system of claim 7 wherein said root directory is automatically obtained from a development application.

11. The computer system of claim 7 wherein said first protocol server and said second protocol server are run from a single physical computer system.

12. A method in a web page authoring environment for automatically converting Web addresses into file transfer addresses comprising:

capturing entry of a Web page address;

removing address elements of said Web page address beyond a base portion of said Web page address corresponding to a parent Web site address when the base portion of the Web page address is found in a mapping database;

adding said removed address elements to a base file transfer address corresponding to said parent Web site address to create a second URL; and

retrieving a file using the second URL and providing the file to the web page authoring environment for editing.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

prompting a user to enter said parent Web site address.

14. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

comparing said Web page address to said parent Web site address prior to said removing.

15. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

obtaining said base file transfer address from one of;

the Web page authoring environment; and

a user.