Abstract: A system and method for efficiently forwarding client requests from a proxy server in a TCP/IP computing environment is described. A plurality of transient requests are received from individual sending clients into a request queue. Each request is commonly addressed to an origin server. Time estimates of TCP overhead, slow start overhead, time-to-idle, and request transfer time for sending the requests over each of a plurality of managed connections to the origin server are dynamically calculated, concurrent to receiving and during processing of each request. The managed connection is chosen from, in order of preferred selection, a warm idle connection, an active connection with a time-to-idle less than a slow start overhead, a cold idle connection, an active connection with a time-to-idle less than a TCP overhead, a new managed connection, and an existing managed connection with a smallest time-to-idle. Each request is forwarded to the origin server over the selected managed connection.

Abstract: A system and method for providing integrated secured and optimized packet messaging is described. A plurality of request packets staged in a packet queue from a requesting client and specifying content for retrieval from a destination server are categorized. The content is retrieved from the destination server. The retrieved content is optimized for at least one such request packet. The retrieved content is exchanged as secure content protected using a cipher negotiated with the requesting client for at least one such request packet.