OPTIMIZED NETWORK RESOURCE LOCATION

摘要

Resource requests made by clients or origin severs in a network are intercepted by reflector mechanisms and selectively reflected to other severs called repeaters. The reflectors select a best repeater from a set of possible repeaters and redirect the client to the selected best repeater. The client then makes the request of the selected best repeater. The resource is possibly rewritten to replace at least some of the resource identifiers contained therein with modified resource identifiers designating the repeater instead of the origin server.