Patent ID: 8560834

Claim:
A system for providing secure socket layer (SSL) communication between a client computer and a web server over at least one wide-area-network, the system comprising: a client-side intermediate computer communicatively coupled to a client computer over at least one wide-area-network; a server-side intermediate computer communicatively coupled to the client-side intermediate computer and to a web server over the at least one wide-area-network; the client-side intermediate computer programmed to receive an SSL certificate from the client computer using a first communication protocol and send the SSL certificate to the server-side intermediate computer using a second communication protocol that provides higher performance as compared to the first communication protocol; the server-side intermediate computer programmed to receive the SSL certificate from the first intermediate computer and to send the SSL certificate to the web server in a message header, using a third communication protocol; wherein the second communication protocol also provides higher performance as compared to the third communication protocol.