Computer networking system and method with javascript injection for web page response time determination

• US 8,903,894 B2
• Filed: 11/29/2011
• Issued: 12/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hughes Network Systems LLC (Echostar Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Hughes Network Systems LLC (Echostar Corporation)
• Inventors: Dillon, Douglas M.
• Primary Examiner(s): JEAN GILLES, JUDE
• Application Number:
  US13/306,279
• Publication Number:
  US 20120137210A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,099 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224, 709202-206, 709/217, 709/228, 709/225
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching

Abstract

An apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising program code which when executed by an apparatus causes the apparatus to effect the method, for pre-fetching web content. Preferably, a proxy server performs the pre-fetching. Techniques such, for example, as executing Javascript in pre-fetched pages, modifying pre-fetched pages to address URL generation involving random numbers or dates, using cookie information or browser specifics when performing pre-fetching of pages, and injecting Javascript to measure response time may be performed, by way of example.

Claims

1. A first apparatus comprising:

means for receiving, from a web server, first data from a first HTTP response generated by the web server in response to a first HTTP GET request for a first URL generated by a web browser in a second apparatus; and

means for causing the web browser to receive a second HTTP response that differs from the first HTTP response in that the second HTTP response contains data which causes the web browser to generate a second HTTP request in response to a web page received in response to the first HTTP GET request reaching a specified stage of loading in the web browser,

wherein a memory and processor are included in the first apparatus.

2. A first apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second HTTP response includes data which causes the web browser to generate the second HTTP request in response to the end of the web page'"'"'s HTML response having been parsed.

3. A first apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second HTTP response includes data which causes the web browser to generate the second HTTP request in response to the web browser generating a page load Javascript event.

4. A first apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a timing of the first HTTP GET request is a start time of a time interval for loading of the web page.

5. A first apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the timing of the second HTTP request is a finish time of the time interval for loading of the web page.

6. A first apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the second HTTP response includes data which causes the web browser to generate the second HTTP request in response to the web browser generating a page load Javascript event, and

wherein the time interval for loading of the web page is measured according to the start time and the finish time.

7. A first apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said causing means comprises modifying means for obtaining, from the first data, modified first data which is included in the second HTTP response,

wherein said modifying means modifies markup language code in the first data such that the web browser of the second apparatus, by processing the modified markup language code, generates the second HTTP request.

8. A first apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the markup language code is HTML code, and

wherein said causing means comprises means for sending data relating to the modified markup language code for receipt by the second apparatus so that the web browser processes the modified markup language code.

9. A first apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the markup language code comprises HTML code, and

wherein said modifying means comprises means for inserting Javascript into the HTML code to produce the modified markup language code.

10. A first apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the inserted Javascript comprises a page load event handler.

11. A first apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the page load event handler corresponds to an event that the web page has finished loading in the web browser.

12. A first apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the page load event handler, when executed by the web browser, generates the second HTTP request.

13. A first apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the second HTTP request is a request for a URL that contains text dependent upon a time.

14. A first apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the time is a time when the page load event handler is invoked.

15. An apparatus-implemented method comprising:

receiving by a first apparatus comprising a processor, from a web server, first data from a first HTTP response generated by the web server in response to a first HTTP GET request for a first URL generated by a web browser in a second apparatus; and

causing the web browser to receive a second HTTP response that differs from the first HTTP response in that the second HTTP response contains data which causes the web browser to generate a second HTTP request in response to a web page received in response to the first HTTP GET request reaching a specified stage of loading in the web browser.

16. A method according to claim 15, wherein the second HTTP response includes data which causes the web browser to generate the second HTTP request in response to the end of the web page'"'"'s HTML response having been parsed.

17. A method according to claim 15, wherein the second HTTP response includes data which causes the web browser to generate the second HTTP request in response to the web browser generating a page load Javascript event.

18. A method according to claim 15, wherein the timing of the first HTTP GET request is a start time of a time interval for loading of the web page.

19. A method according to claim 18, wherein the timing of the second HTTP request is a finish time of the time interval for loading of the web page.

20. A method according to claim 15, wherein said causing comprises:

modifying the first data to obtain modified first data which is included in the second HTTP response; and

sending by the first apparatus of data relating to the modified first data to the second apparatus for execution by the second apparatus'"'"'s web browser,

wherein the modified first data, upon execution by the web browser, causes the web browser to generate the second HTTP request,

wherein said modifying comprises injecting Javascript into the first data to obtain the modified first data, and

wherein the Javascript includes Javascript that, upon execution by the web browser, generates the second HTTP request for a second URL.

21. A method according to claim 15, wherein said causing comprises:

modifying the first data to obtain modified first data which is included in the second HTTP response; and

sending by the first apparatus of data relating to the modified first data to the second apparatus for execution by the second apparatus'"'"'s web browser,

wherein the modified first data, upon execution by the web browser, causes the web browser to generate the second HTTP request,

wherein the Javascript includes a page load event handler that is configured to, in response to a web page load completion event, generate the second HTTP request.

22. A method comprising:

injecting, by a first apparatus comprising a processor and a memory, of Javascript into a HTTP response to be received by a second apparatus that generated a first HTTP GET request to which the HTTP response corresponds,

wherein the Javascript includes Javascript which was not present in the HTTP response before the injection and which, upon execution by the second apparatus, causes the second apparatus to generate a second HTTP request in response to a web page received in response to the first HTTP GET request reaching a specified stage of loading in the second apparatus.

23. An apparatus-implemented method comprising:

receiving by a first apparatus comprising a processor, via a network connection, of a HTTP response, the HTTP response corresponding to a web page; and

injecting, by the first apparatus into the HTTP response, of a Javascript page load event handler that is triggered in response to finishing of loading of the web page by a web browser of a second apparatus,

wherein the triggering of the Javascript page load event handler causes the second apparatus to generate a second HTTP request.

24. A method according to claim 23, wherein the second HTTP request is a HTTP GET request.

25. A method according to claim 23, wherein the second HTTP request is a HTTP POST request.

26. A method according to claim 23, wherein the second HTTP request is a HTTP PUT request.

27. A method according to claim 23, further comprising sending, via a network connection to the second apparatus, the HTTP response having been injected with the Javascript page load event handler.

28. A method according to claim 27, wherein the second apparatus executes the injected Javascript page load event handler, which generates the second HTTP request as a HTTP GET request in response to the finishing of loading by the web browser of the second apparatus of the web page.

29. An apparatus-implemented method carried out by a system comprising a processor and a memory, the method comprising:

receiving, by a client proxy, of a first HTTP GET request generated by a web browser of a client apparatus for a first URL;

recording, by the client proxy, of time of receipt of the first HTTP GET request;

editing, by the client proxy, of Javascript to provide code configured to cause the web browser of the client apparatus to generate a second HTTP request;

sending, by the client proxy, to the web browser of the client apparatus of an HTTP response comprising the code;

generating by the web browser of the client apparatus of the second HTTP request in response to receipt of the HTTP response comprising the code;

receiving, by the client proxy, of the second HTTP request;

recording, by the client proxy, of time of receipt of the second HTTP request; and

computing a response time in accordance with a difference between the time of receipt of the first HTTP GET request as recorded by the client proxy and the time of receipt of the second HTTP request as recorded by the client proxy.

30. A method according to claim 29, wherein the code is configured such that the second HTTP request is a last HTTP GET request carried out by the web browser when processing the HTTP response.

31. A method according to claim 29, wherein the code comprises an end-of-page event handler.