System and method for emulating different user agents on a server

• US 9,148,467 B1
• Filed: 10/05/2012
• Issued: 09/29/2015
• 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:
  US13/646,455
• Time in Patent Office: 1,089 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 system for emulating a multitude of different user agents on a server-side, the system comprising:

a processor-based emulator executed on a computer system and configured to;

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

determine 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;

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

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

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

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

identify a plurality of elements of the Document Object Model of the Webpage for manipulation at the script server on the server-side;

manipulate the plurality of elements of the Document Object Model of the webpage 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;

serialize 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;

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

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

2. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer-readable program code embodied therein, the computer-readable program code adapted to be executed by one or more processors to implement a 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 Webpage for manipulation at the script server on the server-side;

manipulating the plurality of elements of the Document Object Model of the webpage 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.