Patent ID: 8230224

Claim:
A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium for transmitting data and a security feature within a message having a plurality of parts, wherein the message is transmitted over a connection-oriented protocol through a network, comprising: program code for receiving a hypertext transport protocol GET request for data, wherein a first hypertext transport protocol response is transmitted in response to the hypertext transport protocol GET request; program code for determining a security feature for the data including program code for determining a digital signature for the data; program code for transmitting, subsequent to the first hypertext transport protocol response, the message in a second hypertext transport protocol response to the GET request, wherein the second hypertext transport protocol response comprises a first part that contains the data and a second part that contains the security feature, and wherein the first hypertext transport protocol response comprises information indicating that one of the plurality of parts of the second hypertext transport protocol response contains said security feature, wherein the security feature includes the digital signature for the data and a result of a validation of the digital signature.