Patent ID: 8769660
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for configuration driven proxying of cookies by an intermediary between one or more servers and one or more clients, the intermediary establishing SSL VPN sessions between the one or more servers and the one or more clients, the method comprising: (a) receiving, by an intermediary, a response from a server to a request of a client via a clientless SSL VPN session established by the intermediary between the server and the client, the response comprising one or more cookies; (b) identifying, by the intermediary, via the request or the response based on identification of a type of resource, an access profile for the clientless SSL VPN session, the access profile identifying one or more policies for proxying cookies; and (c) determining, by the intermediary responsive to the one or more policies of the access profile, whether to proxy the one or more cookies, comprising handling the one or more cookies on behalf of the client, or to bypass proxying for the client by forwarding the response with the one or more cookies from the server to the client without modifying the one or more cookies.