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| Pub. No.: | | WO/1999/066385 | |
International Application No.: | | PCT/US1999/013876 |
| Publication Date: | 23.12.1999 |
International Filing Date: | 18.06.1999 |
| Chapter 2 Demand Filed: 19.01.2000 |
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| IPC: |
G06F 17/30 (2006.01), G06F 1/00 (2006.01), H04L 29/06 (2006.01) |
| Applicant: | SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. [US/US]; 901 San Antonio Road
MS UPAL01-521
Palo Alto, CA 94303 (US). |
| Inventors: | NAGAR, Vivek; (US).
SINGH, Inderjeet; (US). |
| Agent: | GARRETT, Arthur, S.; Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
1300 I Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20005-3315 (US). |
| Priority Data: | |
| Title: |
SCALABLE PROXY SERVERS WITH PLUG IN FILTERS
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| Abstract: |
A proxy server (228) operative to accept plug-in filters to perform forward and reverse filtering between a client process (210) and a server process (208). In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a method of filtering information includes the steps of receiving a request by the proxy server (228) from a client (210). The proxy server (228) identifies a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of a server process (208) in the request and compares that URL against filter rules previously defined to the system. In the event the URL satisfies one of the filter rules, a filter servlet associated with the satisfied filter rule is used to filter the requested information. A filter servlet is a set of instructions that, when executed, filters the information. The filtered request is then used to retrieve information from a server process (208). Similarly, the same filtering process may be performed on a response from the server process (208) destined for a client process (210). |
| Designated States: |
JP.
European Patent Office (EPO) (AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE).
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