METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BOOKMARKING UNIFORM RESOURCE IDENTIFIERS THAT ARE SUBJECT TO REDIRECTION

摘要

A system, method and computer program product that enables retrieval of a web page that was previously retrieved by a browser device as a result of issuing an HTTP request with a given request URI that resulted in a redirection response from a server device. The system implements the use of bookmarks to retrieve a web page that was retrieved earlier using a given request URI by associating a request URI with a bookmark stored in a browser; later reference to the bookmark initiates retrieval of the web page identified by the URI associated with that bookmark. The association between the request URI and the bookmark is distributed between the browser and the web server. In a second aspect of this invention, the association is stored entirely in the browser.