Patent ID: 7343398
Filing Date: 2008-03-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method allowing for transparent intermediation of data flows over connection-based authentication schemes, comprising maintaining, at a proxy server, at least one non-exclusive persistent connection to at least one origin server; establishing, at the proxy server, client connections with respective client devices responsive to receipt of corresponding client requests, wherein the client requests designate respective origin servers; if the client request includes an element associated with a connection-based authentication handshake for a transaction between the client and the origin server; for each received client request that includes an element associated with a connection-based authentication handshake for a transaction between the client and the origin server, establishing an exclusive server connection between the proxy server and the origin server, wherein the exclusive server connection is exclusively for the transaction, associated with the connection-based authentication handshake, between the client and the origin server, and is not used for any other transactions, and forwarding the client requests request to the origin server over the respective exclusive server connections; else, multiplexing received client requests to the origin server over a selected one of the at least one non-exclusive persistent connection to the origin server, if the client requests do not include an authentication element.