System and method for emulating different user agents on a server

• US 8,285,813 B1
• Filed: 12/03/2008
• Issued: 10/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Appcelerator Incorporated (Axway Software SA)
• Original Assignee: Appcelerator Incorporated (Axway Software SA)
• Inventors: Colton, Paul, Sarid, Uri, Lindsey, Kevin Edward
• Primary Examiner(s): Whipple, Brian P
• Application Number:
  US12/327,802
• Time in Patent Office: 1,406 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-219
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

A system and method for emulating a multitude of different user agents on a server-side is disclosed herein. On a server-side, an acceptable user agent string for receiving full content from the web-site with a browser sniffing agent is identified. The acceptable user agent is emulated by transmitting a HTTP request with the acceptable user agent string, allowing for access to the full content of the web-page of the web-site.

Claims

1. A method for emulating a multitude of different user agents on a server-side, the method comprising:

identifying a Web-page on a Web-site, the Web-site having browser sniffing code;

determining an acceptable user agent string for a first browser for receiving full content from the Web-site, the user agent string one of a plurality of user agent strings wherein a user agent string for a second browser does not receive full content for the Web-page;

emulating the acceptable user agent by transmitting a HTTP request with the acceptable user agent string;

retrieving a HTML document for the Web-page at a script server on the server-side;

parsing the HTML document for the Web-page at the script server on the server-side;

building a Document Object Model of the Web-page at the script server on the server-side;

identifying a plurality of elements of the Document Object Model of the Web-page for manipulation at the script server on the server-side;

manipulating the plurality of elements of the Document Object Model of the web-page to create a manipulated Document Object Model of the Web-page at the script server on the server-side, wherein the manipulated Document Object Model of the Web-page presents a full content of Web page to the second browser;

serializing the manipulated Document Object Model of the Web-page at the script server on the server-side into an HTML document for a Web-page with a manipulated Document Object Model;

transmitting the HTML document for the Web-page with the manipulated Document Object Model to a Web-server; and

transmitting the HTML document for the Web-page with the manipulated Document Object Model to a client side using the second browser.