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Systems and methods for using an HTTP-aware client agent

  • US 8,943,304 B2
  • Filed: 08/03/2006
  • Issued: 01/27/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for using client agents operating in a virtual private network environment, the method comprising:

  • (a) intercepting at a network layer of a network stack of a client computing device, by a first client agent configured to be Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) aware, executing on the client computing device, one or more transport layer packets comprising an HTTP request from an application executing on the client computing device;

    (b) modifying, by the first client agent at the network layer of the network stack of the client computing device, a portion of a header of an application layer content of a payload of each of the one or more transport layer packets, the portion corresponding to a value of a name-value pair identified in the header of the application layer content contained in the payload of the one or more transport layer packets;

    (b.2) encrypting, by a second client agent at a transport layer of the network stack of the client computing device, the modified payload; and

    (c) transmitting, by the second client agent via a transport layer connection, the intercepted one or more packets comprising the modified and encrypted payload to a server via a virtual private network.

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