Abstract: A mobile-based client-server system architecture incorporates two specialized software layers—a specialized “proxy” layer that resides on a mobile client station, and a “web agent” layer that resides on a server. A conventional web browser application residing on a mobile client station is configured to point to the proxy layer, which captures HTTP information request messages that are transmitted to, and received from, the web browser. The HTTP request messages are packed by the proxy layer within a selected communication transmission format for upstream transmission over a communication network, such as a wireless network. At the server, the web agent layer recovers the original, (i.e., “raw”) HTTP request messages, which are then sent to an appropriate web server for further processing.