Back to results
US 2008/0288648 A1Published application
Method and an apparatus to validate a web session in a proxy server
AssigneeRed Hat, Inc.
InventorJames Paul Schneider
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Some embodiments of a method and an apparatus to validate a web session in a proxy server have been presented. In one embodiment, service of predetermined content is offloaded from an application server to a proxy server communicatively coupled between the application server and a client. Using the proxy server, access to the predetermined content by the client may be controlled.
Claims28
A method comprising:
- offloading service of predetermined content from an application server to a proxy server communicatively coupled between the application server and a client;
- and
- using the proxy server to control access to the predetermined content by the client.
A proxy server comprising:
- a first network interface to communicatively couple to a client to receive an access request to access predetermined content;
- and
- an authentication module to authenticate the client based on information in the access request, wherein the client has previously obtained the information from an application server.
A machine-readable medium that provides instructions that, if executed by a processor, will cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- offloading service of predetermined content from an application server to a proxy server communicatively coupled between the application server and a client;
- and
- using the proxy server to control access to the predetermined content by the client.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.