International Business Machines Corporation
Licensing authority controlled modification of http headers in a proxy-based system

Abstract:

A proxy is modified, to form an enhanced proxy, wherein the proxy is configured to inspect a header portion of a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http) message, the modifying enabling the enhanced proxy to identify, at the enhanced proxy, a set of http header types in the http message received from a system. An external licensing authority (LA) is modified, to form an enhanced LA, wherein the enhanced LA is configured to verify a header parameter corresponding to a header type in the set of header types and return a license information corresponding to the system. The http message is modified by modifying the header portion in the http message according to the header type and a threshold corresponding to the header type, the header type and the threshold being identified in the license information. The modified http message is transmitted.