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Systems and methods for using a client agent to manage HTTP authentication cookies

  • US 9,544,285 B2
  • Filed: 09/30/2013
  • Issued: 01/10/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for using an authentication cookie to authenticate a transport layer connection, the method comprising:

  • (a) establishing, by an agent executing on a processor of a client, a first transport layer connection with a device intermediary to the client and a server;

    (b) receiving, by the agent, a first request from an application on the client to establish a second transport layer connection with the server;

    (c) transmitting, by the agent, to the device via the first transport layer connection a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request to authenticate the first request to establish the second transport layer connection, prior to transmitting the first request of the application to the device, the HTTP request comprising an authentication cookie;

    (d) transmitting, by the agent to the device responsive to receiving from the device an HTTP response indicating successful authentication using the authentication cookie, the first request to establish the second transport layer connection with the server via the first transport layer connection; and

    (e) transmitting, by the agent, via the second transport layer connection to the server, data received from the application.

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