Patent ID: 8812622

Claim:
A method comprising: defining an application optimizer group (AOG) that includes: a first information handling system (IHS) client on a client side of the AOG; a first WAN optimizer controller (WOC) coupled to the first IHS client; a second IHS server on a server side of the AOG; a third IHS application delivery controller (ADC) coupled to the second IHS server; a second WOC coupled to the third IHS ADC; the first IHS client, the first WOC, the second IHS server, the third IHS ADC and the second WOO being situated in a communication path in a network; receiving from the first IHS client by the second IHS server, a server application request message (SARM) transmitted over the communication path in the network; periodically broadcasting, by the second IHS server to each member of the AOG, an unsolicited restful application optimizer message (RAOM) that includes application optimizer information defining a compression protocol for a particular port; receiving, by the third IHS, the RAOM; populating an application table in the third IHS ADC with the application optimizer information from the RAOM, wherein members of the AOG maintain identical application tables storing application optimizer information; generating, by the second IHS server, an application response to the server application request message (SARM), the application response being directed to the first IHS client over the communication path in the network; intercepting, by the third IHS ADC, the application response; extracting, by the third IHS ADC, from the application response, header information including a destination port; determining, by the third IHS ADC, whether the extracted header information matches application message optimizer information in the application table of the third IHS ADC; and in response to determining that a match exists, the third IHS ADC retrieving the application optimizer information from the application table and not performing a deep packet inspection; and in response to determining that a match does not exist, the third IHS ADC performing a deep packet inspection on the application response to determine application optimizer information; and applying, by the third IHS ADC, the application optimizer information to the application response by compressing the application response in accordance with the defined compression protocol.