Abstract: A method is presented for obtaining information from a client for the benefit of a server using a particular communication protocol that the server does not implement. A primary server receives a client-generated request, and the primary server sends a first request to a secondary server as part of the processing of the client-generated request. While processing the first request, the secondary server determines a need for data obtainable from a client application that supports user interaction using a communication protocol for which the secondary server is not configured to implement. The secondary server sends a second request to the primary server for obtaining data that results from using the communication protocol. The secondary server subsequently receives the resulting data and continues to process the first request using the resulting data, after which the secondary server returns a response for the first request to the primary server.

Abstract: A system and method for implementing XSL/XML based authorization rules policy on a given set of data. An authorization rules engine is created which uses authorization rules defined in XSL to operate on access decision information (ADI) provided by the user. Inside the authorization rules engine, a boolean authorization rules mechanism is implemented to constrain the XSL processor to arrive at a boolean authorization decision. By applying the constrained authorization rules, the authorization rules engine evaluates available ADI data from an ADI XML input document. An output from a set of predetermined authorization decisions is provided to the user when the ADI input data is successfully evaluated. An error message is also provided to the user if required ADI data is unavailable for evaluation.