Methods for transforming requests for web content and devices thereof

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for transforming requests for web content in order to manipulate the server-side processing of the requests comprising machine executable code which when executed by at least one processor, causes the processor to:

• obtain, via one or more communication networks, a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request from at least one client computing device;
• generate an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) document comprising a representation of the HTTP request;
• identify at least one rule document associated with the HTTP request, the rule document comprising one or more rule elements defining one or more manipulations to one or more parameters of the HTTP request;
• transform the identified at least one rule document into an eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) document including one or more templates;
• apply at least one of the one or more templates of the XSL document to the XML document comprising the representation of the HTTP request to modify one or more values of one or more elements of the XML document while maintaining an XML format of the XML document;
• and
• provide, via another one or more communication networks, the XML document with the modified element values to a destination identified in a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the HTTP request and hosted by a server computing device.

A web content optimization computing apparatus for transforming a request for web content, comprising a memory comprising programmed instructions stored in the memory, the memory coupled to one or more processors, which are configured to be capable of executing the programmed instructions stored in the memory to:

• obtain, via one or more communication networks, a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request from at least one client computing device;
• generate an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) document comprising a representation of the HTTP request;
• identify at least one rule document associated with the HTTP request, the rule document comprising one or more rule elements defining one or more manipulations to one or more parameters of the HTTP request;
• transform the identified at least one rule document into an eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) document including one or more templates;
• apply at least one of the one or more templates of the XSL document to the XML document comprising the representation of the HTTP request to modify one or more values of one or more elements of the XML document while maintaining an XML format of the XML document;
• and
• provide, via another one or more communication networks, the XML document with the modified elements to a destination identified in a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the HTTP request and hosted by a server computing device.