Patent ID: 9548966
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method in a proxy server for validating visitor Internet-based security threats, comprising receiving, from a client device, a request to perform an action on an identified resource that is hosted at an origin server for a domain as a result of a DNS (Domain Name System) request for the domain resolving to the proxy server, wherein the origin server is one of a plurality of origin servers that belong to different domains that resolve to the proxy server and are owned by different entities, and wherein the proxy server and the plurality of origin servers are owned by different entities; determining, based on an IP (Internet Protocol) address assigned to the client device and associated with the request, that a visitor belonging to the client device is a potential threat; and causing a validating domain server to determine whether the visitor is a threat based on a cookie associated with the visitor for a validating domain, the causing including transmitting a response to the client device that includes a redirection to the validating domain that resolves to the validating domain server.