Patent ID: 8136150
Filing Date: 2012-03-13
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: a reverse proxy server storing a plurality of application role mappings, each application role mapping defining an application resource that a web application is allowed to access; the reverse proxy server receiving a request from a user for a first web application, the first web application being associated with at least one of the plurality of stored application role mappings; based upon the at least one of the plurality of stored application role mappings, the reverse proxy server determining a first user role for the first web application requested by the user; the reverse proxy server sending the determined first user role as part of a HTTP header to the first web application; wherein the first web application uses the first user role, without doing an independent mapping of the user to a role, to generate a display of the first web application suitable for use according to the determined first user role for the first web application; identifying a tag in code that is included in the display of the first web application that refers to a second web application; and inserting the second web application into the generated display.