Patent ID: 8738692
Filing Date: 2014-05-27
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, operative at an intermediary between a client browser and one or more backend applications during an existing authenticated session with a user operating the client browser, the method comprising: responsive to forwarding a request to a backend application, receiving a response; making a determination whether the response is associated with a cookie that should be returned to the client browser by examining the response for presence of code whose execution in the client browser requires a cookie, wherein if the response includes code whose execution in the client browser requires a cookie, marking the response as associated with a cookie that should be returned to the client browser; if the response is associated with a cookie that should be returned to the client browser, tracking the cookie in a per-user session cache object associated with the session; and forwarding the response including the cookie to the client browser; wherein at least one of the receiving, making, tracking and forwarding steps is carried out in software executing in a hardware element.