Patent ID: 7162723
Filing Date: 2007-01-09
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request handling runtime, comprising: a context object logically representing an HTTP request that is received at a host application from a client application, the context object encapsulating at least one property associated with the received HTTP request; an event pipeline corresponding to the context object, the event pipeline having a plurality of request events, each request event having a corresponding event and generating a call-back when the event corresponding to the request event is raised and when at least one of an application and a module is registered in association with the request event, each call-back initiating each application and each module that is registered in association with the request event to process the context; and wherein the event pipeline is a separate instance of the event pipeline for each HTTP request that is received at the host application from a client application and wherein the separate instance of the event pipeline exists only during the lifetime of its corresponding context object.