System and method of handling requests in a multi-homed reverse proxy

a reverse proxy and multi-home technology, applied in the field of clientserver communication, can solve the problems of limited capabilities of existing reverse proxy servers, the inability of most cloud applications to use simultaneously,

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-11-01
SYMANTEC CORP
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As a result, most cloud applications cannot use simultaneously both a federated SSO strategy, which normally requires direct communications between the Identity Provider for the enterprise and the Cloud application, and a Reverse Proxy, which would interrupt this direct communications for SSO.
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[0121]With the objective to overcome the limitations of reverse proxies of the prior art, an enhanced Reverse Proxy server has been developed by the PerspecSys corporation. This enhanced Reverse Proxy server will be referred to as a Perspecsys (PRS) Reverse Proxy, features and embodiments of which are described in the following.

[0122]To resolve the apparent incompatibility of federated SSO to operate in conjunction with a Reverse Proxy, the invention proposes a system and methods wherein a modified Reverse Proxy (termed PerspecSys Reverse Proxy) behaves as an Intercepting Proxy, inserting itself in the middle of the trusted authentication conversation between the SSO Identity Provider and the Cloud application. In this way, the PRS Reverse Proxy can be used for its original purposes for managing access to the Cloud applications, i.e. applications provided and running in SaaS servers, while not hindering the security and user management that SSO provides for authentication with the C...

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Cloud service providers provide resources on a plurality of hosts some of which furthermore reside in different domains. An enhanced Reverse Proxy server is described which is configured to access hosts of multiple domains, handling client requests transparently. A request from a client to any of the supported service provider target hosts is addressed to a path in the domain of the reverse proxy server, and is formatted to include the target host domain coded as a short form name which is inserted in the path component of the request. Arguments in JavaScript calls of the response from the target host to the client are modified to ensure that future JavaScript operations generate similarly formatted requests. The enhanced Reverse Proxy translates Universal Resource Locators (URLs) of traffic between hosts of the service provider and the client in both directions accordingly.

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RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]The present application claims benefit from the U.S. provisional application Ser. No. 61 / 479,634 filed on Apr. 27, 2012, entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates to client-server communication in a network, and in particular to user authentication when client-server communication is mediated by a proxy.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]In computer networks, a Reverse Proxy is a type of proxy server that retrieves resources on behalf of a client from one or more servers. These resources are then returned to the client as though they originated from the Reverse Proxy itself. The user browser navigates to a Universal Resource Locator (URL) in a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) message for example HTTP: / / www.mydomain.com. The Reverse Proxy at that address, in turn, makes a request to the real web server resources on behalf of the user, for example HTTP: / / www.saas.com. In order for a...

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IPC IPC(8): G06F15/173
CPCH04L61/2596H04L61/301H04L67/28H04L63/0815G09C1/00G06F21/10H04L63/0281G06F21/602H04L67/02H04L67/56
Inventor WOELFEL, JOHN HAROLD
Owner SYMANTEC CORP
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