Patent ID: 8914519

Claim:
A method for tracking a plurality of Web Browser requests for access to resources within a particular Web site, the method comprising: loading a configuration file for a Web server into memory; processing one or more redirection statements in the configuration file; for requests sent from a Web browser to a Web server for access to resources within the Web site, comparing within the Web server each of the requests with a set of redirection criteria disposed in the redirection statements stored in the configuration file of the Web server; for requests which match the redirection criteria, from within the Web server forwarding the request to a request tracker separate from the Web server, the request tracker tracking Web Browser requests for access to resources within a particular Web site; and, the request tracker determining an explicit session identifier, logging the request together with the explicit session identifier, and forwarding the request back to the Web server for processing, wherein the request tracker comprises a process running within a Web application server.