Uniquely identifying script files by appending a unique identifier to a URL

摘要

Described herein are techniques related to uniquely identifying script files. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope and meaning of the claims. A script file repository includes one or more script files that have unique identifiers and optionally version numbers. A computing device accesses a web document that references a script file using the unique identifier/version number.

主权项

1. A computing device comprising:
a web document accessor configured to access a web document, the web document having a uniform resource locator (URL) for a script file and a unique identifier for the script file appended to the URL, a parser configured to recognize the unique identifier and to obtain the unique identifier from the web document; a script file locator configured to use the unique identifier to determine whether the script file is located at a same server as that specified by the URL for the script file, or that the script file is located in a script file repository located at a different server from that specified by the URL for the script file, the script file repository comprising scripts for a plurality of different web documents; and a script file obtainer configured to obtain the script file from the script file repository when the script file locator determines the script file is located in the script file repository.