Systems and methods for error detection

• US 9,021,140 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2007
• Issued: 04/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc. (Cloud Software Group)
• Original Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc. (Cloud Software Group)
• Inventors: Mackey, Timothy
• Primary Examiner(s): Truong, Lechi
• Application Number:
  US11/684,933
• Publication Number:
  US 20080229323A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,969 Days
• Field of Search: 719/318, 719/311, 709/219
• US Class Current: 709/318
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0709 in a distributed system consisting of a plurality of standalone computer nodes, e.g. clusters, client-server systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0751 Error or fault detection not based on redundancy power supply failures G06F1/30; network fault management H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3414 Workload generation, e.g. scripts, playback
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/86 Event-based monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/875 Monitoring of systems including the internet
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/885 Monitoring specific for caches
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications

Abstract

The method can include receiving, at a computing device of an end-user, a web page including a script embedded by a network appliance, the script having instructions that when executed by the computing device registers for notification of a browser error event, executing the script at the computing device of the end-user, and recording the occurrence of an error during the rendering of the web page, when an error occurs.

Claims

1. A method of determining a presence of errors in a web page, the method comprising:

requesting, at a computing device of an end-user, the web page from a server, the server receiving a request for the web page;

intercepting, by a network appliance in a communication path between the computing device and the server, a response from the server, the network appliance different from the server that receives the request from the computing device;

accelerating, by the network appliance, the receipt of the web page by the computing device of the end-user;

receiving, in response to the request, at the computing device of the end-user, the web page including a script embedded by the network appliance, the script having instructions that

when executed by the computing device registers for notification of a browser error event;

executing the script at the computing device of the end-user; and

recording an occurrence of an error during a rendering of the web page;

wherein the recording comprises recording a time of the occurrence of the error relative to a web page execution;

accelerating, by the network appliance, the receipt of the web page by the computing device of the end-user via an acceleration technique, the acceleration technique comprising at least one of transport layer connection pooling, transport layer connection multiplexing, transport control protocol buffering, compression, and caching.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising recording information about an application executing web page content of the web page.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising reporting the recorded error occurrence to another computing device, the another computing device being located on a second domain.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the reporting comprises communication via an SSL protocol with the another computing device of the second domain.

5. A system for determining a presence of errors in a web page, the system comprising:

means for requesting, at a computing device of an end-user, a web page from a server, the server receiving a request for the web page;

means for intercepting, by a network appliance in a communication path between the computing device and the server, a response from the server, the network appliance different from the server that receives the request from the computing device;

means for accelerating, by the network appliance, the receipt of the web page by the computing device of the end-user;

means for receiving, in response to the request, at the computing device of the end-user, a web page including a script embedded by the network appliance, the script having instructions that when executed by the computing device registers for notification of a browser error event;

means for executing the script at the computing device of the end-user using a processor; and

means for recording an occurrence of an error during the rendering of the web page.

6. The system of claim 5 further comprising means for recording information about an application executing content of the web page.

7. The system of claim 5 wherein the means for recording comprise means for recording the time of the occurrence of the error relative to the web page execution.

8. The system of claim 5 further comprising means for accelerating, by the network appliance, the receipt of the web page by the computing device of the end-user via an acceleration technique, the acceleration technique comprising at least one of transport layer connection pooling, transport layer connection multiplexing, transport control protocol buffering, compression, and caching.

9. The system of claim 5 further comprising means for reporting the recorded error occurrence to another computing device, the another computing device being located on a second domain.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the means for reporting comprise means for communication via an SSL protocol with the another computing device of the second domain.

11. A method of determining information associated with a web page via a computer network, comprising:

requesting, at a computing device of an end-user, the web page from a server, the server receiving a request for the web page;

intercepting, by a network appliance in a communication path between the computing device and the server, a response from the server, the network appliance different from the server that receives the request from the computing device;

accelerating, by the network appliance, the receipt of the web page by the computing device of the end-user;

receiving, responsive to the request, at the computing device of the end-user, the web page including a script embedded by the network appliance, the script having instructions that when executed by the computing device, registers information about the web page;

executing the script at the computing device of the end-user; and

recording the occurrence of an event responsive to execution of the script at the computing device of the end-user;

wherein the recording comprises recording a time of the occurrence of the error relative to a web page execution;

accelerating, by the network appliance, the receipt of the web page by the computing device of the end-user via an acceleration technique, the acceleration technique comprising at least one of transport layer connection pooling, transport layer connection multiplexing, transport control protocol buffering, compression, and caching.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the script includes instructions that when executed by the computing device registers for notification of a browser error event, further comprising:

recording the occurrence of an error during a rendering of the web page.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the script indicates a performance parameter and wherein recording the occurrence of the event comprises recording the performance parameter indicated in the script.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

transmitting, by the computing device of the end-user, a request to a first domain for the web page, the web page including content;

receiving, responsive to the request, at the computing device of the end-user, the web page including both the content of the web page and the script embedded by the network appliance;

transmitting a request to a computing device of a second domain for an item identified by the web page; and

transmitting the recorded performance parameter to the computing device of the second domain as part of the transmitted request.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein transmitting the recorded performance parameters comprises transmitting the recorded performance parameters to the second domain via an SSL communication.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein transmitting the recorded performance parameters comprises transmitting the recorded performance parameters to a server of the second domain.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein transmitting the request to the computing device of the second domain for the item identified by the web page comprises transmitting the request to the computing device of the second domain for an image identified by the web page.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein recording the occurrence of the event comprises cataloging query parameters of an URL source for an image created by the script.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the image is dynamically created by the script.