Patent ID: 7203720

Claim:
A method of analyzing a resource leak on a first web server using a second web server, comprising: receiving, at a first Web server, a first hyper-text transfer protocol (HTTP) request message from a client, the first HTTP request message comprising an identifier of an information component stored on the a first Web server, wherein the first Web server generates a reply to the first HTTP request message, the reply comprising the information component, and sends the reply to the client; forward mci the request from the first Web server to a multiplier; generating at the multiplier multiple duplicate HTTP request messages for the information component in response to the receiving of the first request, for analyzing a resource leak on said first Web server, each of the duplicate HTTP request messages comprising the identifier of the information component; and transmitting the duplicate HTTP request messages to a second Web server, and wherein said multiple duplicate HTTP request messages multiply any existing resource leak, thereby facilitating detection, diagnosis or analysis, or combinations thereof, and wherein transmitting to said second Web server maintains said first Web server free from receiving said multiple duplicate HTTP request messages.