Patent ID: 9141669
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for configuring an origin server website content delivery using a server computer acting as an edge server and a cache proxy in a content delivery network, the method comprising the steps of: communicating, over a communications network from the server computer and at a regular interval, a request for a data list comprising at least one list item identifying an operating mode for a website, and generated from a database query, run since the last regular interval and returning at least one job record comprising a first data field identifying the website and a second data field identifying the operating mode for the website; analyzing, using the server computer, the data list received over the communications network to: based on the analysis, updating and re-initializing a server configuration file for the server computer to identify at least one website in the data list configured for the developer mode; receiving, at the server computer, at least one hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request for a website content for the at least one website; and in response to the at least one HTTP request, and for each of the at least one website identified in the server configuration file as configured for the developer mode, directly routing, from the server computer, the at least one HTTP request for the website content to an origin server without caching the website content on, or serving the website content from, a cache within the server computer.