Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Gerald Eugene Sullivan

Caleb Sima

Prajakta Subbash Jagdale

Steve Alan Millar

Bryan Sullivan

Raymond Kelly

Leonid Promyshlyansky Bensman

David Tillery

A method and system for generating a signature for determining whether a web page is in a first state or a second state, comprising the steps of selecting a plurality of web pages for processing, requesting the web pages in the first state, dividing the first state pages into a first set of text blocks, requesting the web pages in the second state, dividing the second state pages into a second set of text blocks, eliminating from the first and second sets the text blocks that are common between the first and second set, generating a signature comprising the text blocks of the first set as a component indicative of the first state and the text blocks of the second set as a component indicative of the second state.

Method and system for detecting a state of a web application using a signature

A vulnerability assessment tool that is operative to analyze web sites by simultaneously operating a crawling process and an audit process. Once the crawling process is invoked, the results are provided to the audit process. The audit process, rather than waiting until the crawl process is completed, simultaneously audits the web site based on the already provided crawl results. The results of the audit are also fed back to the crawl process to further enhance the crawl.

Integrated crawling and auditing of web applications and web content

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Gerald Eugene Sullivan