Patent ID: 6286046
Filing Date: 2001-09-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method of generating a trace of requests to a given server application in a computer network during a transaction session initiated from a client having a Web browser, comprising:connecting the Web browser to a monitoring process for generating the trace;during the transaction session, intercepting each HTTP request intended for the given server application and redirecting the HTTP request to the monitoring process;recording the HTTP request in the trace;issuing a given request from the monitoring process to the application server;delivering a response to the given request from the application server to the monitoring process;if the response to the given request includes an absolute URL that that has not been encountered by the monitoring process, translating the absolute URL into a modified URL; andreturning the response with the modified URL back to the Web browser such that, when the Web browser attempts to retrieve the modified URL, a new HTTP request is passed through the monitoring process and recorded in the trace instead of being used to fetch a resource from the application server directly.