Network site customization using proxies

• US 9,313,187 B1
• Filed: 11/10/2010
• Issued: 04/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Huntwork, Andrew S., Boynes, Jeremy, Pew, Benjamin Elliott, Shekhar, Shashank, Bell, Anna Catherine
• Primary Examiner(s): Moorthy, Aravind
• Application Number:
  US12/943,130
• Time in Patent Office: 1,980 Days
• Field of Search: 709/245, 709/228, 726/4, 726/12, 726/22
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0879 Manual configuration through operator
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/28 Restricting access to network management systems or functions, e.g. using authorisation function to access network configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0281 Proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams

Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments for network site customization using proxy server applications. A first request is obtained from an administrator of a network site to configure a proxy server application to obtain one or more network pages associated with a first portion of the network site from a first application executed in one or more computing devices. The proxy server application is configured in accordance with the first request. A second request is obtained from the administrator to reconfigure the proxy server application to obtain the one or more network pages from a second application executed in one or more computing devices. The network site includes one of several network sites hosted at least in part through the second application. The proxy server application is reconfigured in accordance with the second request.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in a computing device, the program comprising a plurality of instructions that cause the computing device to at least:

determine whether a client is authorized to configure a domain name associated with a network site and a proxy server application associated with the network site, wherein the network site is one of a plurality of network sites maintained by the program and individual ones of the plurality of network sites may be exclusively configured by separate ones of a plurality of clients;

configure the domain name associated with the network site to point to the proxy server application in response to a first determination that the client is authorized to configure the domain name;

obtain a first identification of a first portion of the network site from the client, the first identification including a first uniform resource locator (URL);

configure the proxy server application associated with the network site to obtain the first portion of the network site from a first electronic commerce application hosted within a first network in response to a second determination that the client is authorized to configure the proxy server application associated with the network site;

obtain a second identification of a second portion of the network site from the client, the second identification including a second URL;

configure the proxy server application associated with the network site to obtain the second portion of the network site from a second electronic commerce application hosted within a second network in response to the second determination that the client is authorized to configure the proxy server application associated with the network site; and

reconfigure the proxy server application associated with the network site to obtain the first portion of the network site from the second electronic commerce application, wherein the first URL is mapped to a third URL corresponding to the second electronic commerce application.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the first URL includes a filename, the third URL includes another filename, and the filename is different from the another filename.

3. A system, comprising:

at least one computing device; and

a network site configuration application executable in the at least one computing device, the network site configuration application comprising a plurality of machine-readable instructions that cause the at least one computing device to at least;

authenticate one a plurality of user accounts, wherein individual ones of the plurality of user accounts are exclusively authorized to configure respective ones of a plurality of network sites after the individual ones of the user accounts have been authenticated;

obtain a first identification of a first network page associated with at least one of the plurality of network sites, wherein the at least one of the plurality of network sites is associated with the authenticated one of the plurality of user accounts;

configure a proxy server application to obtain the first network page from a network page server application executed in the at least one computing device within an untrusted network that is separated from a trusted network by a firewall;

obtain a second identification of a second network page associated with the at least one of the plurality of network sites; and

configure the proxy server application to obtain the second network page from an application executed in at least one other computing device within the trusted network.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein a domain name associated with the at least one of the plurality of network sites is mapped to the proxy server application.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein a domain name associated with the first network page is mapped to the proxy server application.

6. The system of claim 3, wherein the application executed in the at least one other computing device comprises a first electronic commerce application, and the network page server application comprises a second electronic commerce application.

7. The system of claim 3, wherein the application executed in the at least one other computing device is configured to accept an electronic payment.

8. The system of claim 3, wherein the first identification of the first network page and the second identification of the second network page comprise a respective uniform resource locator (URL).

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the proxy server application is configured to translate the URL corresponding to the second network page into a different URL based at least in part on a data dictionary lookup function.

10. The system of claim 3, wherein the first identification of the first network page includes a regular expression.

11. The system of claim 3, wherein the proxy server application comprises a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) proxy server application.

12. A method, comprising:

authenticating, in at least one computing device, an administrator account of a network site, wherein the administrator account is one of a plurality of administrator accounts and the network site is one of a plurality of network sites and individual ones of the plurality of administrator accounts are exclusively authorized to configure individual ones of the plurality of network sites;

obtaining, in the at least one computing device, a first request from the administrator account of the network site to configure a proxy server application to obtain at least one network page associated with a first portion of the network site from a first application executed in at least one computing device;

configuring, in the at least one computing device, the proxy server application in accordance with the first request in response to authenticating the administrator account, wherein the proxy server application is configured via a control panel provided by the at least one computing device to the plurality of administrator accounts, wherein the control panel permits the individual ones of the plurality of administrator accounts to configure the proxy server application with respect to the individual ones of the plurality of network sites;

obtaining, in the at least one computing device, a second request from the administrator account to reconfigure the proxy server application to obtain the at least one network page associated with the first portion of the network site from a second application executed in at least one computing device, wherein the network site comprises one of a plurality of network sites hosted at least in part through the second application; and

reconfiguring, in the at least one computing device, the proxy server application in accordance with the second request in response to authenticating the administrator account.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising reconfiguring, in the at least one computing device, the proxy server application to obtain the at least one network page associated with the first portion of the network site from the first application based at least in part on a saved configuration.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising configuring, in the at least one computing device, the proxy server application to obtain at least one network page associated with a second portion of the network site from the second application.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

obtaining, in the at least one computing device, a specification of at least one uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding to the first application, the specification including at least one regular expression; and

configuring, in the at least one computing device, the proxy server application to translate the at least one URL into a different at least one URL corresponding to the second application.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising determining, in the at least one computing device, a set of uniform resource locators (URLs) corresponding to the first portion of the network site.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising configuring, in the at least one computing device, the proxy server application to translate each URL in the set of URLs into a corresponding URL in another set of URLs that is associated with the second application.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the set of URLs are automatically determined based at least in part on a plurality of requests for network pages of the network site.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the first application corresponds to a first electronic commerce application and the second application corresponds to a second electronic commerce application.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the second electronic commerce application is configured to process an electronic payment associated with at least one of a plurality of entities.

21. The method of claim 12, wherein the second application is executed within a trusted network that is separated from an untrusted network by a firewall, and the first application is executed within the untrusted network.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the proxy server application is executed in the untrusted network.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the proxy server application is executed in the trusted network in a demilitarized zone.

24. The method of claim 12, further comprising configuring, in the at least one computing device, a domain name associated with the network site to point to the proxy server application.

25. The method of claim 12, the proxy server application comprises a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) proxy server application.