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US 8,285,813 B1Granted
System and method for emulating different user agents on a server
AssigneeAppcelerator, Inc.
InventorsPaul Colton, Uri Sarid, Kevin Edward Lindsey
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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.
Claims1
A method for emulating a multitude of different user agents on a server-side, the 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 Web-page for manipulation at the script server on the server-side;
- manipulating the plurality of elements of the Document Object Model of the web-page 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;
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- transmitting the HTML document for the Web-page with the manipulated Document Object Model to a client side using the second browser.
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