Patent ID: 8341278

Claim:
A process for secure content delivery, comprising: (a) providing a plurality of caching servers connected to a network that cache customer content, the plurality of caching servers responding to requests for customer content, wherein the customer is a customer of a service that manages the plurality of caching servers; (b) at a given caching server in the plurality of caching servers, receiving from a client a request for content at a Universal Resource Locator (URL), wherein the URL is a URL that, in a separate process, was provided to the client by a customer-managed server and includes an authorization value that was inserted into the URL by the customer-managed server after authorizing the client for access to customer content; (c) verifying the authorization value in the URL on the given caching server; (d) sending the customer content to the client if the authorization value in the URL is valid; (e) not sending the customer content to the client if the authorization value in the URL is invalid.