Inventors:
Darrell Long - Katy TX, US
Lee Dolsen - Albuquerque NM, US
Doug Moen - Waterloo, CA
Assignee:
Blue Coat Systems, Inc. - Sunnyvale CA
International Classification:
H04L 9/32
US Classification:
726 12, 726 10, 726 11, 713154, 713156, 713159, 713160
Abstract:
A host computer system is categorized according to uniform resource locator (URL) information extracted from a digital certificate purportedly associated with said host. Thereafter, a secure communication session (e. g. , an SSL session) with said host may be granted or denied according to results of the categorizing. If granted, messages associated with the secure session may be tunneled through a proxy without decryption, or, in some cases, even though the secure communication session was authorized messages may be decrypted at the proxy.