Patent ID: 8352570

Claim:
A method for communicating data, comprising: receiving a first request, the first request comprising a first uniform resource identifier and a header portion, the first request requesting a content item as specified by the first uniform resource identifier and the header portion; determining whether to transform the first request, the first request being transformed when at least a portion of the first request matches a transform criteria; in response to transforming the first request, generating a second request based on a specific transform associated with the first request, the header portion, and the first uniform resource identifier, the second request being associated with the content item, the second request generated by performing an action associated with the specific transform based on the header portion and the first uniform resource identifier to yield a second uniform resource identifier, the second uniform resource identifier being different than the first uniform resource identifier, the first and second uniform resource identifiers being in a hypertext transport protocol; determining whether the content item is stored in a cache based on the second uniform resource identifier; and retrieving the content item from the cache in response to the content item being cached.