20120089700 | PROXY SERVER CONFIGURED FOR HIERARCHICAL CACHING AND DYNAMIC SITE ACCELERATION AND CUSTOM OBJECT AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A method is provided to deliver content over a network comprising: receiving a request by a proxy server; determining by the proxy server whether the received request involves content to be delivered from an origin using one or more persistent network connections or from a cache; sending by the proxy server a request to retrieve the content from a cache when the request is determined to involve cached content; and sending by the proxy server a request using one or more persistent network connections to retrieve the content from the origin when the content is to be is determined to involve content to be delivered using one or more persistent network connections. | 04-12-2012 |