Abstract: Present invention refers to a method for processing a request received in a web cache. The method is characterized by: obtaining from said request a server domain; retrieving a configuration information associated to the server domain; obtaining a path from the request; retrieving a list of actions, from the configuration information, associated to the path; filtering actions to be executed before forwarding the request to an origin server; executing filtered actions to be executed before forwarding the request to an origin server and forwarding said request; receiving a response from the origin server in the web cache; filtering actions to be executed after obtaining the response from the origin server; executing filtered actions to be executed after obtaining the response from the origin server; and finally, building a response for the request.

Abstract: A distributed health-check method for web caching in a telecommunication network, wherein a plurality of web caching nodes are coordinated to monitor a set of origin servers where web content is generated. The method includes associating to each user of the telecommunication network requesting the web content buckets as logical containers for holding the web content requested; generating a list of users of the telecommunication network requesting the web content; and performing the plurality of web caching nodes a number of health-checks to the set of origin servers to download the requested web content. A filtering of the set of origin servers is performed for grouping in different areas of interest and the number of health-checks are performed by a limited number of caching nodes receiving the web content requests. The limited number of caching nodes selected belonging to a specific area of interest of the set of origin servers monitoring them.