Mobile Application Redirect by Way of Triggered Push Notifications

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving, by a mobile device, a push notification from a scanning server device, wherein the scanning server device is associated with a virtual private network (VPN) server device or proxy server device, wherein the scanning server device detected a uniform resource locator (URL) in a first request transmitted by a first mobile application executing on the mobile device, wherein the URL is related to an application server device, and wherein the push notification contains the URL or a different URL;
• providing, by the mobile device, the URL from the push notification to a second mobile application executing on the mobile device;
• and
• transmitting, by the second mobile application, a second request to the application server device or a second application server device, wherein the second request contains the URL from the push notification.

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving, by a scanning server device, a request from a first mobile application executing on a mobile device, wherein the request is directed to an application server device, and wherein the request contains a uniform resource locator (URL) related to the application server device;
• determining, by the scanning server device, that a destination IP address in a packet header of the request is associated with the application server device;
• and
• in response to determining that the destination IP address is associated with the application server device, transmitting, to the mobile device, a push notification containing the URL or a different URL.