JP4882738B2 - Client device, communication method, and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a client device, a communication method, and a program, and more particularly, to a client device, a communication method, and a program that transmit a request message to a WWW server via a relay server.

  In recent years, with the development of network technology, various technologies have appeared as communication means. In particular, Internet communication technology called WWW (World Wide Web) is used as a standard technology worldwide. In the WWW, a user accesses a host computer called a WWW server prepared by an information provider using a program called a WWW browser and acquires desired information.

  Resources that can be acquired on the WWW are called WWW contents. WWW content is often described in a description language called HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). When the WWW browser acquires information described in HTML, the WWW browser interprets the HTML and displays the information as an HTML page.

  In the HTML page, link information of other WWW contents can be inserted, and the user can acquire other WWW contents from the WWW server using the link information. Further, the WWW content in the WWW server is designated by a name in accordance with a rule called URL (Uniform Resource Locator). The link information of the HTML page designates another WWW content by this URL.

  There are full path designation, absolute path designation, and relative path designation as a method for designating WWW contents by URL.

  In the full path designation, the URL is described by the name (host name) of the destination WWW server and a path character string that designates the WWW content in the WWW server. For example, the full path designation URL is described as “http: // server A / path 1 / file 1.html”. Here, “server A” is the host name of the WWW server, and “/ path 1 / file 1.html” is a path character string. This URL designates an HTML page having a file descriptor “file 1.html” in a directory indicated by a path character string “/ path 1” of a WWW server whose host name is “server A”. .

  In the absolute path designation, a path character string starting from “/” is described. For example, “/ file 1.html” is an absolute path designation.

  Furthermore, in the relative path designation, a path character string that does not start with “/” is described. For example, “g / h.html” is a relative path designation.

  In the HTML page, it is possible to describe link information to WWW contents different from HTML such as still images and moving images, and when displaying the HTML page, it is possible to insert the WWW contents at a specified location. . When a user acquires WWW content using a WWW browser, an Internet communication technique called HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) is used.

  In such a WWW, an information sharing technique has been proposed. In the information sharing technique, a plurality of users update the same HTML page, and the updated HTML page is displayed on a plurality of clients in real time.

  There is a technique in which a relay server is used in the information sharing technique. Information sharing technology using a relay server includes, for example, Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Publication No. 2001-511561), Patent Document 2 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2006-18795), and Patent Document 3 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-243195). It is described in.

  In the synchronous display method described in Patent Document 1, when an HTTP request to a WWW server is transmitted from a WWW browser in a client, the synchronization module in the client intercepts the HTTP request and synchronizes the HTTP request. Send to server (equivalent to relay server).

  The synchronization server transmits the HTTP request to the WWW server, and acquires the WWW content corresponding to the HTTP request. When the synchronization server acquires the WWW content, it transmits it to the synchronization module in the client. The synchronization module displays the WWW content with a WWW browser.

  The synchronization module notifies the WWW browser of the storage location. The WWW browser acquires WWW content from the storage location of the synchronization server.

  In general, various modules operate in cooperation within the WW browser. For this reason, in this synchronous display method, when the synchronization module intercepts the transmitted HTTP request and performs communication, an abnormality may occur in the operation between the modules, and a failure may occur in communication.

  In the techniques described in Patent Documents 2 and 3, the synchronization module can acquire the WWW content without intercepting the transmitted WWW content.

  In the WEB sharing system described in Patent Document 2, when a relay URL is included in an HTTP request received from a client's WWW browser, the relay server sends the HTTP request to the WWW server based on the relay URL. Send.

  The relay URL is described in a format of “http: // host name of relay server / relay determination character string / host name of WWW server / path character string”. The relay determination character string indicates that this URL is a relay URL.

  For example, when the HTTP request includes the relay URL “http://proxy.com/flag/aaa.com/ccc.html”, the host name of the destination WWW server to which the relay server sends this HTTP request Becomes “aaa.com”, and the path character string becomes “/ccc.html”. Note that “proxy.com” is the host name of the relay server, and “flag” is the relay determination character string.

  When the relay server receives an HTML page corresponding to the transmitted HTTP request from the WWW server, the relay server returns the HTML page to the WWW browser of the client.

  At this time, the relay server creates maintenance cookie information indicating the host name of the WWW server and returns it to the WWW browser. When the WWW browser receives the cookie information, it will always attach this cookie information and send an HTTP request to the relay server when communicating with the WWW server until a relay URL containing the host name of another WWW server is received. To come.

  When the relay request is not included in the HTTP request, the relay server determines whether the HTTP request includes cookie information for session maintenance. In such a case, for example, there is a case where there is an absolute path URL in the HTML page.

  When the cookie information for session maintenance is included in the HTTP request, the relay server transmits the HTTP request to the WWW server indicated by the cookie information.

  As a result, the WWW browser can acquire an image even if there is an image specified by an absolute path in the HTML page, for example.

  For this reason, when a client acquires an HTML page, it is possible for another module to acquire the HTML page without intercepting the transmitted HTTP request.

  However, in this WEB sharing system, if there is a URL in which the host name of the WWW server is described as the destination in the HTML page, the HTTP request including the URL is directly transmitted to the WWW server without relaying it to the relay server. There was a problem that it was.

  For example, if there is a URL “http://www.nec.co.jp/index.html” in the HTML page, an HTTP request corresponding to the URL is specified by the host name “www.nec.co.jp”. Sent to the WWW server.

  In the shared information utilization system described in Patent Document 3, an HTTP request can be transmitted to a relay server even if there is a URL destined for the WWW server in the HTML page.

  In this shared information utilization system, the relay server accepts an HTTP request from the WWW browser of the client, relays the HTTP request to the WWW server, and acquires WWW content corresponding to the HTTP request.

  The relay server rewrites the URL in the acquired WWW content to a URL destined for the relay server. The relay server transmits an HTTP request with the URL rewritten to the client. The WWW browser of the client receives the WWW content whose URL has been rewritten from the relay server, and displays the WWW content.

For this reason, when the WWW browser transmits an HTTP request including a URL in the displayed WWW content by a user operation, the URL is rewritten to a URL destined for the relay server. Is transmitted to the relay server.
Special table 2001-511561 gazette JP 2006-18795 A JP 2001-243195 A

  In the shared information utilization system described in Patent Document 3, when the relay server rewrites the URL included in the acquired WWW content, it is necessary to determine whether the character string included in the WWW content is a URL.

  However, it is generally difficult to determine whether the character string in the WWW content is a URL. For this reason, there is a possibility that a character string that is a URL is erroneously determined not to be a URL, or a character string that is not a URL is erroneously determined to be a URL, and the URL is rewritten.

  For example, “http://www.nec.co.jp” included in the HTML description “<BODY> http://www.nec.co.jp </ BODY>” is a URL format, but is WWW. In a browser, it is processed as a simple character string, not a URL. The character string “b” included in the HTML description “<a href=b>” is processed as a URL.

  For this reason, in order to accurately determine whether or not it is a URL, complicated processing is required. As a result, the load on the relay server may increase, and the operation speed of the relay server may be delayed.

  An object of the present invention is a client capable of preventing a request message including a URL in WWW content from being transmitted to a WWW server without going through the relay server while suppressing an increase in the load on the relay server. An apparatus, a communication method, and a program are provided.

  In order to achieve the above object, a client device connected to a relay server that relays a request message to a WWW server, generates a request message including a URL in WWW content, and transmits the generated request message. A processing unit; and a detection unit that detects whether the request message is a target request message including a URL in which a host name of the WWW server is described as a destination when the processing unit generates the request message. When the detection unit detects the target request message, the stop unit stops transmission of the target request message by the processing unit, and the transmission of the target request message is stopped by the stop unit. Then, the URL included in the target request message is Rewriting the relay URL for relaying the relay server, including a resumption unit for transmitting a target request message rewritten the URL to the processing unit.

  The communication method of the present invention is a communication method performed by a client device connected to a relay server that relays a request message to a WWW server, and includes a generation step of generating a request message including a URL in WWW content; A transmission step of transmitting the generated request message, and whether the request message is a target request message including a URL in which a host name of the WWW server is described as a destination when the request message is generated A detection step for detecting, a stop step for stopping transmission of the target request message when it is detected that the target request message is detected, and a target request message included when transmission of the target request message is stopped URL Serial comprises a rewriting step of rewriting the relay URL for relaying the relay server, and a transmission step of transmitting the object request message the URL is rewritten.

  According to the above invention, the URL in which the host name of the WWW server included in the request message is described as the destination is rewritten to the relay URL for relaying the relay server.

  Therefore, even if the relay server does not change the URL in the WWW content, it is possible to prevent a request message including the URL from being transmitted to the WWW server without going through the relay server. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the request message including the URL in the WWW content from being transmitted to the WWW server without going through the relay server while suppressing an increase in the load on the relay server.

  In addition, there are a plurality of URLs in the WWW content, and the processing unit generates a plurality of request messages including each of the plurality of URLs, and also displays the WWW content corresponding to the transmitted request message. And when the transmission of the plurality of target request messages is stopped by the stopping unit, the resuming unit selects at least one of the plurality of target request messages, and the selected target request message includes Rewriting the URL to the relay URL, and receiving the WWW content from the WWW server with the host name described in the URL included in the target request message selected by the resuming unit is terminated at the processing unit. When the reception of the WWW content is completed, the resuming unit It is desirable to include a monitoring unit for selecting a-option the target request message different target request message.

  Conventionally, if there is a URL of an absolute path for designating a WWW content for insertion in each of a plurality of WWW content, reception of the WWW content for insertion may fail. Such a phenomenon occurs, for example, when there are a plurality of frame pages having an absolute path URL designating an image in a WEB page.

  For example, in the HTML page 800 shown in FIG. 8, when the client apparatus receives the frame pages “1” and “2” at the same time, to acquire the images “1” and “2” in each frame page, respectively. Are sent to the relay server almost simultaneously. At this time, the URL designating the image “1” is an absolute path described by a path character string designating the image in the WWW server “aaa.com”, and the URL designating the image “2” is the WWW server It is an absolute path described by a path character string that designates an image in “xxx.co.jp”.

  The relay server tries to relay the request message to the WWW server indicated by the cookie information for session maintenance because each image is designated by the URL of the absolute path. However, the cookie information for maintaining the session is either the WWW server host name “aaa.com” of the frame page “1” or the WWW server host name “xxx.co.jp” of the frame page “2”. Since only one can be shown, acquisition of either image “1” or “2” fails.

  According to the above invention, when reception of the host name described in the URL included in the selected target request message from the WWW server is completed, a target request message different from the selected target request message is selected.

  For this reason, even if there is a URL with an absolute path described in a path character string designating WWW contents for insertion in different WWW servers in WWW contents, reception failure of the WWW contents for insertion is prevented. It becomes possible to do.

  The resuming unit selects all of the plurality of target request messages when transmission of a plurality of target request messages including URLs in which the host names of the same WWW servers are described as destinations is stopped in the stop unit. It is desirable to do.

  In general, when an HTTP request is transmitted one by one, the communication speed is reduced.

  According to the above invention, all of the plurality of target request messages including URLs in which the host names of the same WWW servers are described as destinations are selected.

  For this reason, it becomes possible to transmit a request message simultaneously to the WWW server with the same address, and it becomes possible to improve a communication speed.

  When the reception of the WWW content is completed, the monitoring unit is different from the host name described as the destination in the URL included in the target request message selected by the resuming unit, and the host name of the same WWW server is the destination. When there are a plurality of target request messages including the URL described as “”, it is desirable that the resume unit select all of the plurality of target request messages.

  According to the above invention, when the reception of the WWW content is completed, a plurality of target request messages including URLs that are different from the selected target request message and include the same WWW server host name as the destination are selected. Is done.

  For this reason, when there are a plurality of sets of target request messages including URLs in which the host names of the same WWW servers are described as destinations, the communication speed can be improved.

  The program of the present invention causes a computer to execute the communication method.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to prevent the request message including the URL in the WWW content from being transmitted to the WWW server without going through the relay server while suppressing an increase in the load on the relay server. .

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  In FIG. 1, the communication system includes a WWW server 1, a client device 2, and a relay server 3. The WWW server 1, the client device 2, and the relay server 3 are connected to each other via the Internet, for example. Note that the communication network connecting the WWW server 1, the client device 2, and the relay server 3 is not limited to the Internet and can be changed as appropriate.

  There are a plurality of WWW servers, and FIG. 1 shows one of the plurality of WWW servers.

  The WWW server 1 stores WWW content. The WWW content is, for example, an information resource that can be acquired on the WWW such as an WEB page such as an HTML page and an image.

  When receiving an HTTP request from the client apparatus 2 or the relay server 3, the WWW server 1 transmits a response corresponding to the HTTP request to the client apparatus 2 or the relay server 3. An HTTP request is an example of a request message.

  For example, when the method (method) of the HTTP request is “GET”, the WWW server 1 transmits the WWW content specified by the path character string of the URL included in the HTTP request as a response. The HTTP request method indicates the type of the HTTP request. The HTTP request for the method “GET” indicates data acquisition.

  The client device 2 includes an input unit 21, an information processing unit 22, a display unit 23, and a request storage unit 24.

  The input unit 21 receives a change instruction for changing the WWW content.

  The information processing unit 22 includes an HTML processing unit 201, a request detection unit 202, a request stop unit 203, a request resumption unit 204, and a reading monitoring unit 205.

  When receiving the WWW content from the WWW server 1 or the relay server 3, the HTML processing unit (hereinafter referred to as a processing unit) 201 displays the WWW content on the display unit 23.

  The processing unit 201 generates a request message including the URL in the WWW content, and transmits the generated request message. When there are a plurality of URLs in the WWW content, the processing unit 201 generates a plurality of HTTP requests including each of the plurality of URLs.

  The processing unit 201 receives a response corresponding to the transmitted request message from the WWW server 1 or the relay server 3. The response is, for example, WWW content.

  Further, when the input unit 21 receives the change instruction, the processing unit 201 displays new WWW content received from the WWW server 1 or the relay server 3 on the display unit 23 in accordance with the change instruction. Note that the change and display of WWW content is not different from the prior art and is not directly related to the present invention, so detailed description thereof is omitted.

  When the processing unit 201 generates an HTTP request, the request detection unit (hereinafter referred to as a detection unit) 202 determines whether the request message is an HTTP request including a URL in which the host name of the WWW server is described as a destination. Detect whether or not. Hereinafter, an HTTP request including a URL in which the host name of the WWW server is described as a destination is referred to as a target request.

  For example, when the processing unit 201 generates the target request, the processing unit 201 notifies the detection unit 202 of the target request. When receiving the target request, the detection unit 202 detects that the HTTP request generated by the processing unit 201 is the target request.

  When detecting the HTTP request as a target request, the detection unit 202 stores the target request in a request storage unit (hereinafter referred to as a storage unit) 24.

  At this time, the detection unit 202 may store information based on the target request in the storage unit 24. For example, the detection unit 202 may store header information, cookie information, HTTP version information, and the like in the storage unit 24.

  When the detection unit 202 detects that the request is a target request, the request stop unit (hereinafter referred to as a stop unit) 203 stops the processing unit 201 from transmitting the target request.

  A request resuming unit (hereinafter referred to as a resuming unit) 204 relays the URL included in the target request stored in the storage unit 24 to the relay server 3 when transmission of the target request message is stopped by the stopping unit 203. For the relay URL.

  The relay URL describes the host name of the relay server 3 as the destination, and includes the host name of the WWW server described as the destination in the URL included in the target request, and the path character string of the WWW content.

  For example, if the host name of the relay server 3 is “proxy.com” and the URL included in the target request is “http://bbb.com/index.html”, the resuming unit 204 sets the URL to Rewrite to the relay URL “http://proxy.com/flag/bbb.com/index.html”. Here, “/ flag /” is a relay determination character string, and indicates that this URL is a relay URL. The relay determination character string is not limited to “/ flag /” and can be changed as appropriate as long as it can be determined whether or not the relay server 3 is a relay URL.

  When a plurality of target requests are stored in the storage unit 24, the resuming unit 204 selects at least one of the plurality of target requests and relays the URL included in each of the selected target requests. Rewrite to URL.

  Further, when a plurality of target requests including a URL in which the host name of the same WWW server is described as a destination are stored in the storage unit 24, the resuming unit 204 selects all the plurality of target requests and selects the selected requests The URL included in the target request is rewritten to the relay URL.

  When resuming the URL, the resuming unit 204 causes the processing unit 201 to transmit the target request with the rewritten URL. For this reason, the module can transmit the HTTP request to the relay server without intercepting the transmitted HTTP request.

  The reading monitoring unit (hereinafter referred to as monitoring unit) 205 receives the WWW content from the WWW server having the host name described in the URL included in the target request message selected by the resuming unit 204 at the processing unit 201. Check if it is finished.

  When the reception of the WWW content is completed, the monitoring unit 205 causes the resuming unit 204 to select a target request message different from the selected target request message.

  Here, the monitoring unit 205 includes a plurality of target requests that are different from the host name described as the destination in the URL included in the target request message selected by the resuming unit 204 and include URLs in which the same host name is described as the destination. When the message is in the storage unit 24, the resuming unit 204 selects all the target request messages.

  When receiving the HTTP request from the client device 2, the relay server 3 relays the HTTP request to the WWW server. Here, it is assumed that the relay server 3 transmits an HTTP request to the WWW server 1.

  The relay server 3 receives a response corresponding to the HTTP request from the WWW server 1 and returns the response to the client device 2. At this time, cookie information for maintaining a session indicating the host name of the WWW server 1 is generated, and the cookie information for maintaining the session is attached to the response and transmitted.

  Here, the cookie is a function used to save additional information (cookie information) for the WWW browser without changing the WWW content to be returned. The cookie is a general function of the WWW browser, and detailed description thereof is omitted here.

  The relay server 3 is a relay server described in Patent Document 3, for example. Note that the relay server 3 is not limited to the relay server described in Patent Document 3, and any relay server 3 may be used as long as it can relay an HTTP request to a WWW server.

  Next, an outline of the operation will be described.

  FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of WWW content.

  In FIG. 2, an HTML page 100 is shown as WWW content. In the HTML page 100, there are three URLs that specify the frame pages 11 to 13, respectively. Each of the three URLs is “http://bbb.com/index.html”, “http://zzzz.co.jp/main.html” and “http://bbb.com/adv.html”. Is.

  When the processing unit 201 receives the HTML page 100, the processing unit 201 generates three HTTP requests including the three URLs in the HTML page.

  All of the three HTTP requests include a URL in which the host name of the WWW server is described as the destination. For this reason, the detection unit 202 detects that the three HTTP requests are the target requests, and stores the three target requests in the storage unit 24. In addition, the stop unit 203 stops the transmission of the three target requests by the processing unit 201.

  FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of an HTTP request (target request) stored in the storage unit 24.

  In FIG. 3, the HTTP request 300 includes a method 301, a URL 302, an issuer 303, and data 304.

  Method 301 indicates the type of HTTP request 300. URL 302 indicates a URL that designates a frame page. The issuer 303 indicates the name of the frame page. Data 304 indicates data to be transmitted. Data 304 “none” indicates that there is no data to be transmitted.

  Since the URL specifying each of the frame pages 11 and 13 describes the host name (bbb.com) of the same WWW server as the address, the resuming unit 204 sets the URL specifying each of the frame pages 11 and 13. Select two HTTP requests 300 to include.

  The resuming unit 204 rewrites the URL included in each of the two selected HTTP requests 300 into a relay URL. The URL for relay is, for example, “http://proxy.com/flag/bbb.com/index.html” and “http://proxy.com/flag/bbb.com/adv.html”. .

  The resuming unit 204 transmits two HTTP requests 300 whose URLs have been rewritten from the processing unit 201, and then deletes the two HTTP requests 300 from the storage unit 24.

  Since each of the two HTTP requests 300 includes a relay URL, it is transmitted to the relay server 3.

  When the relay server 3 receives the two HTTP requests 300, the relay server 3 transmits the HTTP requests to the host name “bbb.com” of the WWW server included in the two HTTP requests 300.

  When receiving the two HTTP requests, the WWW server with the host name “bbb.com” sends two WWW contents (frame pages 11 and 13) corresponding to the two HTTP requests to the relay server 3 as responses. To do.

  When receiving the two frame pages 11 and 13, the relay server 3 returns the frame pages 11 and 13 to the processing unit 201 of the client device 2. At this time, the relay server 3 generates cookie information for session maintenance indicating the host name “bbb.com”, and transmits the cookie information attached to the frame pages 11 and 13.

  When receiving the frame pages 11 and 13, the processing unit 201 displays the frame pages 11 and 13 on the display unit 23.

  In addition, the processing unit 201 generates two HTTP requests including URLs “/BBB.JPG” and “/ADV.JPG” that specify the images 11a and 13a in the frame pages 11 and 13, respectively. The two HTTP requests are transmitted to the relay server 3. At this time, the processing unit 201 attaches the cookie information attached to the frame pages 11 and 13 to each of the two HTTP requests, and transmits the two HTTP requests to the relay server 3.

  When the relay server 3 receives the two HTTP requests, the relay server 3 transmits the two HTTP requests to the WWW server having the host name “bbb.com” indicated by the cookie information attached to the HTTP request.

  When receiving the two HTTP requests, the WWW server with the host name “bbb.com” transmits two WWW contents (images 11a and 13a) corresponding to the two HTTP requests to the relay server 3 as responses. .

  When the relay server 3 receives the two images 11 a and 13 a, the relay server 3 returns the images 11 a and 13 a to the processing unit 201 of the client device 2.

  When the processing unit 201 receives the images 11 a and 13 a from the relay server 3, the processing unit 201 displays the images 11 a and 13 a on the display unit 23.

  When the processing unit 201 finishes receiving the images 11a and 13a, the monitoring unit 205 receives the WWW content from the WWW server having the host name “bbb.com” described as the address in the URL included in the target request message. The unit 201 confirms that the process has been completed. The monitoring unit 205 causes the resuming unit 204 to select a target request message that is different from the previously selected target request message.

  Next, the operation will be described.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining an example of the operation of the communication system.

  In step S101, when receiving the WWW content from the WWW server 1 or the relay server 3, the processing unit 201 displays the WWW content on the display unit 23. After completing step S101, the processing unit 201 executes step S102.

  In step S102, the processing unit 201 generates an HTTP request including a URL in the WWW content based on the WWW content.

  If the generated HTTP request is a target request, the processing unit 201 notifies the detection unit 202 of the HTTP request. When detecting the HTTP request, the detection unit 202 executes Step S103.

  In step S103, the detection unit 202 detects that the HTTP request generated by the processing unit 201 is a target request. The detection unit 202 executes Step S104 after completing Step S103.

  In step S <b> 104, the detection unit 202 stores the target request in the storage unit 24. The detection unit 202 executes Step S105 after completing Step S104.

  In step S <b> 105, the detection unit 202 generates generation information indicating that the target request has been generated, and outputs the generation information to the stop unit 203.

  Upon receiving the generation information, the stop unit 203 generates a stop instruction for stopping the transmission of the target request, and outputs the stop instruction to the processing unit 201. When receiving the stop instruction, the processing unit 201 stops transmission of the target request instructed by the stop instruction.

  For example, the generation information and the stop instruction include the URL of the target request, and the processing unit 201 stops the transmission of the HTTP request including the same URL as the URL included in the stop instruction, and stops the transmission of the target request.

  When the stop unit 203 outputs a stop instruction, the stop unit 203 outputs stop information indicating that the transmission of the target request is stopped to the restart unit 204. When resuming unit 204 accepts the stop information, resuming unit 204 executes step S106.

  In step S <b> 106, the resuming unit 204 acquires the target request from the storage unit 24. At this time, when a plurality of target requests including URLs of the same WWW server are stored in the storage unit 24, the resuming unit 204 selects all of the plurality of target requests and acquires the selected target request. .

  If a plurality of target requests are stored in the storage unit 24 but a plurality of target requests including the URL of the same WWW server are not stored in the storage unit 24, the resuming unit 204 One of the requests is selected, and the selected HTTP request is acquired.

  When the resume unit 204 acquires the target request, the restart unit 204 deletes the acquired target request from the storage unit 24. When the restarting unit 204 finishes step S106, it executes step S107.

  In step S107, the resuming unit 204 rewrites the URL included in the acquired target request into a relay URL. At this time, the resuming unit 204 may rewrite information different from the URL included in the target request, or may add new information to the target request.

  When the restarting unit 204 ends step S107, it executes step S108.

  In step S <b> 108, the resuming unit 204 generates a transmission instruction for transmitting the target request with the URL rewritten, and outputs the transmission instruction and the target request to the processing unit 201.

  When the processing unit 201 receives the transmission instruction and the target request, the processing unit 201 transmits the target request. At this time, since the target request includes the relay URL, it is transmitted to the relay server 3.

  When the relay server 3 receives the target request, the relay server 3 executes Step S109.

  In step S109, the relay server 3 relays the target request to the WWW server 1. When receiving the target request, the WWW server 1 transmits the WWW content corresponding to the target request to the relay server 3 as a response. When the relay server 3 receives the WWW content, the relay server 3 transmits the WWW content to the processing unit 201. At this time, the relay server 3 generates cookie information for session maintenance indicating the WWW server 1.

  When the processing unit 201 receives the WWW content, the processing unit 201 displays the WWW content on the display unit 23.

  Further, the monitoring unit 205 confirms whether or not the processing unit 201 has finished receiving the WWW content from the WWW server 1. When the monitoring unit 205 finishes receiving the WWW content, the monitoring unit 205 outputs a selection instruction for selecting the target HTTP request to the resuming unit 204. When resuming unit 204 accepts the selection instruction, resuming unit 204 executes step S106.

  According to the present embodiment, the processing unit 201 generates an HTTP request including the URL in the WWW content, and transmits the HTTP request. The detecting unit 202 detects whether a target request including a URL in which the host name of the WWW server is described as a destination is generated. When it is detected that the target request is generated, the stopping unit 203 stops the transmission of the target request by the processing unit 201. When the transmission of the target request is stopped, the resuming unit 204 rewrites the URL included in the target request with a relay URL for relaying the relay server 3. The resuming unit 204 causes the processing unit 201 to transmit the target request message whose URL has been rewritten.

  In this case, the URL in which the host name of the WWW server included in the request message is described as the destination is rewritten to the relay URL for relaying the relay server.

  Therefore, even if the relay server does not change the URL in the WWW content, it is possible to prevent a request message including the URL from being transmitted to the WWW server without going through the relay server. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the request message including the URL in the WWW content from being transmitted to the WWW server without going through the relay server while suppressing an increase in the load on the relay server.

  In the present embodiment, when the transmission of a plurality of target request messages is stopped by the stop unit 203, the resuming unit 204 selects at least one of the plurality of target request messages. The resuming unit 204 rewrites the URL included in the selected target request message into a relay URL. The monitoring unit 205 confirms whether or not the processing unit 201 has finished receiving the WWW content from the WWW server having the host name described in the URL included in the selected target request message. When the monitoring unit 205 finishes receiving the WWW content, the monitoring unit 205 causes the resuming unit 204 to select a target request message that is different from the selected target request message.

  In this case, when reception from the WWW server of the host name described in the URL included in the selected target request message is completed, a target request message different from the selected target request message is selected.

  For this reason, even if there is a URL with an absolute path described in a path character string designating WWW contents for insertion in different WWW servers in WWW contents, reception failure of the WWW contents for insertion is prevented. It becomes possible to do.

  In the present embodiment, when the resuming unit 204 stops transmission of a plurality of target request messages including URLs in which the host names of the same WWW servers are described as destinations in the stopping unit 203, the resuming unit 204 Select all request messages.

  In this case, it becomes possible to simultaneously send request messages to the WWW server with the same address, and the communication speed can be improved.

  In the present embodiment, when the reception of the WWW content ends, the monitoring unit 205 includes a URL that is different from the target request message selected by the resuming unit 204 and includes the same WWW server host name as the destination. When there are a plurality of target request messages, the resuming unit 204 selects all the target request messages.

  In this case, when there are a plurality of sets of target request messages including URLs in which the host names of the same WWW servers are described as destinations, the communication speed can be improved.

  Next, a second embodiment will be described.

  In this embodiment, a case where the HTTP request method is “POST” will be described. The method “POST” indicates the transmission of data. In this case, when receiving the HTTP request, the WWW server 1 transmits a response indicating that the data has been successfully received or that the data has failed to be received as a response.

  FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing another example of WWW content.

  In FIG. 5, an HTML page 500 is shown as WWW content. In the HTML page, there is a URL “http://bbb.com/form.cgi” corresponding to the form 50.

  The form 50 includes input boxes 51 to 53 and a button 54.

  Information input by the user is displayed in the input boxes 51 to 53. When the user operates the input unit 21 and presses the button 54, the processing unit 201 generates an HTTP request including a URL associated with the form 50.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the content acquisition system of the second embodiment. In FIG. 6, the same processes as those in FIG. 4 are denoted by the same reference numerals.

  It is assumed that the user inputs information into the input boxes 51 to 53 using the input unit 21. At this time, the input unit 21 receives the information and outputs the information to the processing unit 201. When the processing unit 201 receives the information, the processing unit 201 displays the information on the display unit 23. Thereafter, it is assumed that the user presses the button 54 using the input unit 21.

  In step S601, the input unit 21 outputs to the processing unit 201 that the button has been pressed. When the processing unit 201 accepts that fact, the processing unit 201 executes step S602.

  In step S602, the processing unit 201 generates an HTTP request corresponding to that effect. Specifically, the processing unit 201 generates an HTTP request including a URL attached to the form 50. At this time, the HTTP request method is “POST”.

  When the processing unit 201 generates an HTTP request, the detection unit 202 executes step S103. Thereafter, steps S103 to S109 are executed.

  FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing another example of the HTTP request stored in the storage unit 24 in step S104. FIG. 7 shows the HTTP request generated in step S602.

  In FIG. 7, the HTTP request 700 includes a method 701, a URL 702, an issuer 703, and data 704.

  Method 701 illustrates POST. A URL 702 indicates a URL associated with the form 50 as a transmission destination of the HTTP request. The issuer 703 indicates the name “top” of the HTML page including the form 50 as the issuer of the HTTP request 300. Data 704 indicates information input to the input boxes 51 to 53 as data to be transmitted. The data 704 includes kanji data “Shibaura, Minato-ku”, but generally, the kanji data is changed to a format called “application / x-www-form-urlencoded”.

  In this embodiment, even if the HTTP request method is “POST”, a request message including the URL in the WWW content is transmitted to the WWW server without going through the relay server while suppressing an increase in the load on the relay server. It becomes possible to prevent this.

  The function of the information processing unit 22 described above is to record a program for realizing the function on a computer-readable recording medium, and cause the computer to read the program recorded on the recording medium. It may be executed. The computer-readable recording medium refers to a recording medium such as a flexible disk, a magneto-optical disk, and a CD-ROM, and a storage device such as a hard disk device built in a computer system. Further, the computer-readable recording medium is a medium that dynamically holds the program for a short time (transmission medium or transmission wave) as in the case of transmitting the program via the Internet, and in the computer serving as a server in that case Such as a volatile memory that holds a program for a certain period of time.

  At this time, the processing unit 201 is realized by a program called a general WWW browser. In addition, the detection unit 202, the stop unit 203, the resumption unit 204, and the monitoring unit 205 are preferably realized by adding functions to the WWW browser by, for example, ActiveX or plug-in. It may be realized by adding a function to the WWW browser, or may be realized by a program different from the WWW browser without being added to the WWW browser.

  Note that examples of application of the present invention include a remote sharing system and a remote sharing application that share or display one WWW content among a plurality of client devices.

  In the embodiment described above, the illustrated configuration is merely an example, and the present invention is not limited to the configuration.

It is the block diagram which showed the structure of the communication system of one Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which showed an example of the WWW content. It is explanatory drawing which showed an example of the HTTP request memorize | stored in the accumulation | storage part. It is a flowchart for demonstrating an example of operation | movement of a content acquisition system. It is explanatory drawing which showed the other example of the WWW content. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the other operation example of a content acquisition system. It is explanatory drawing which showed the other example of the HTTP request memorize | stored in the accumulation | storage part. It is an example of an HTML page.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 WWW server 2 Client apparatus 3 Relay server 21 Input part 22 Information processing part 23 Display part 24 Request storage part 201 HTML processing part 202 Request detection part 203 Request stop part 204 Request resumption part 205 Reading monitoring part

Claims (5)

A client device connected to a relay server that relays a request message to a WWW server,
A request accumulation unit;
A processing unit that generates a request message including a URL in the WWW content and transmits the generated request message;
When the processing unit generates the request message, it detects whether the request message is a target request message including a URL in which the host name of the WWW server is described as a destination, and is the target request message When detecting that, the detection unit for storing the target request in the request storage unit ,
When the detection unit detects that it is the target request message, a stop unit that stops transmission of the target request message by the processing unit;
When the transmission of the target request message is stopped by the stop unit, the URL included in the target request message is rewritten to a relay URL for relaying the relay server, and the target request message with the rewritten URL is and the resumption unit to be transmitted to the processing unit, only including,
There are a plurality of URLs in the WWW content,
The processing unit generates a plurality of request messages including each of the plurality of URLs, receives WWW content corresponding to the transmitted request message,
The resume unit, when the transmission of a plurality of target request messages is stopped by the stop unit, select all the plurality of target request messages including the same host name stored in the request storage unit as a destination, Acquiring the selected request message from the request storage unit, rewriting the URL included in the acquired target request message to the relay URL,
The processing unit confirms whether or not the reception of the WWW content from the WWW server having the host name described in the URL included in the target request message selected by the resume unit is completed, and receives the WWW content. And a monitoring unit that causes the resuming unit to select a target request message that is different from the selected target request message . The client device according to claim 1 ,
When the reception of the WWW content ends, the monitoring unit describes the host name of the same WWW server as the destination, which is different from the host name described as the destination in the URL included in the target request message selected by the resume unit. When there are a plurality of target request messages including the specified URL, the client device causes the resuming unit to select all of the plurality of target request messages. A communication method performed by a client device connected to a relay server that includes a request storage unit and relays a request message to a WWW server,
A generation step of generating a request message including a URL in the WWW content;
A transmitting step of transmitting the generated request message;
When the request message is generated, it is detected whether the request message is a target request message including a URL in which the host name of the WWW server is described as a destination, and it is detected that the request message is the target request message. Then, a detection step of storing the target request in the request accumulation unit ,
When it is detected that the target request message is detected, a stop step of stopping transmission of the target request message;
When transmission of the target request message is stopped, a rewriting step of rewriting a URL included in the target request message into a relay URL for relaying the relay server;
A transmission step of transmitting the target request message the URL is rewritten, only including,
There are a plurality of URLs in the WWW content,
In the generating step, a plurality of request messages including each of the plurality of URLs are generated,
The resuming step, when transmission of a plurality of target request messages is stopped, a selection step of selecting all the plurality of target request messages including the same host name stored in the request storage unit as a destination;
A change step of acquiring the selected target request message from the request storage unit, and rewriting the URL included in the acquired target request message to the relay URL;
A receiving step of receiving WWW content according to the transmitted target request message;
A monitoring step of confirming whether or not reception of WWW content from a WWW server having a host name described in the URL included in the selected target request message is terminated;
And a reselecting step of selecting a target request message different from the selected target request message when reception of the WWW content ends. The communication method according to claim 3 , wherein
In the reselection step, when reception of the WWW content ends, the host name of the same WWW server is described as the destination, which is different from the host name described as the destination in the URL included in the selected target request message. A client device that selects all the plurality of target request messages when there are a plurality of target request messages including the specified URL. The program which makes a computer perform the communication method of Claim 3 or 4 .

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