Methods for website version control using bucket cookies

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9565271-B1
Application number	US-201414511498-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Oct 10, 2014
Priority date	Oct 10, 2014
Publication date	Feb 7, 2017
Grant date	Feb 7, 2017

Abstract

A system and method are presented for addressing or requesting different versions of a web resource. A first web server electronically connected to a computer network receives from a requestor a first web resource request. The first web resource request includes a bucket cookie and a first web resource address for a first web resource. The bucket cookie includes at least one resource-related bucket cookie value. A second web resource request is generated. The second web resource request corresponds to at least a second web resource required to fulfill the first web resource request. The second web resource request is different from the first web resource request and includes a second web resource address corresponding to the second web resource and including the bucket cookie. The second web resource request is transmitted to a second web server.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a first web server electronically connected to a computer network from a requestor electronically connected to the first web server via the computer network, a first web resource request, the first web resource request including a bucket cookie and a first web resource address for a first web resource, the bucket cookie including at least one resource-related bucket cookie value;
generating, by the first web server, a second web resource request, the second web resource request corresponding to at least a second web resource required to fulfill the first web resource request, the second web resource request being different from the first web resource request and including a second web resource address corresponding to the second web resource and including the bucket cookie;
transmitting, by the first web server, the second web resource request to a second web server, wherein the at least one resource-related bucket cookie value corresponds to a particular version of the second web resource;
responding, by the second web server, to the second web resource request by providing at least the second web resource, the second web resource comprising the particular version of the second web resource to which the at least one resource-related bucket cookie value corresponds;
generating, by the second web server, a third web resource request, the third web resource request corresponding to a third web resource required to fulfill the second web resource request, the third web resource request being different from the second web resource request and including:
a third web resource address corresponding to the third web resource; and
the bucket cookie; and

transmitting, by the second web server, the third web resource request to a third web server.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second web resource request includes an unaltered version of the bucket cookie.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising caching, by the first web server, the particular version of the second web resource and cataloging a cached version of the second web resource with a cache key related at least in part to the bucket cookie.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein cataloging the cached version of the second web resource includes generating a hash of the bucket cookie to be included as at least a portion of the cache key.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving, by the first web server from the second web server, the second web resource, wherein the second web resource corresponds to the at least one of the resource-related bucket cookie value of the bucket cookie.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising responding, by the first web server, to the first web resource request by providing at least the second web resource to the requestor.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the first web resource is managed by the first web server and the at least one resource-related bucket cookie value corresponds to a particular version of the first web resource, and wherein the first web server responds to the first web resource request by further providing the particular version of the first web resource.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first web resource request corresponds to a request to access a website and the second web resource comprises a backend service.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining, by the first web server, whether a cached version of the second web resource corresponding to the bucket cookie exists.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining, by the first web server, whether a cached version of a response to the first web resource request corresponding to the bucket cookie exists.

11. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a first web server in electronic communication with a computer network from a client device in communication with the computer network, a first web resource request including a bucket cookie;
determining, by the first web server, whether the bucket cookie includes at least a first resource-related bucket cookie value corresponding to a first web resource to be provided by the first web server in response to the first web resource request;
outputting, by the first web server, a second web resource request to a second web server for a second web resource, the second web resource request including an unaltered version of the bucket cookie;
receiving, by the first web server from the second web server in response to the second web resource request, a version of the second web resource corresponding to a second resource-related bucket cookie value of the bucket cookie; and
providing, by the first web server to the client device, at least the first web resource and the second web resource.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising outputting, by the first web server or the second web server, a third web resource request to a third web server for a third web resource, the third web resource request including the unaltered version of the bucket cookie.

13. The method of claim 11 further comprising determining, by the first web server, whether a cached version of the second web resource corresponding to the bucket cookie exists.

Assignees

• Go Daddy Operating Co Llc

Inventors

• Burke Jeffrey M
• Canedo Ricardo
• Femiani Thomas J
• Micco Michael J

Classifications

• H04L67/02 Primary

  based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] · CPC title

• H04L47/783

  Distributed allocation of resources, e.g. bandwidth brokers · CPC title

• H04L67/146

  Markers for unambiguous identification of a particular session, e.g. session cookie or URL-encoding · CPC title

• H04L67/32 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/01

  Protocols · CPC title