Communications system providing enhanced client-server communications and related methods

A communications system comprising:

• an application server and at least one communications device for processing requests from one another, said at least one communications device processing requests using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) client application;
• and
• an HTTP server for interfacing said HTTP client application with said application server;
• said HTTP server and said HTTP client application formatting requests to be communicated therebetween via the Internet in an HTTP format, and each providing a global unique identifier (GUID) associated with said HTTP client application with the HTTP formatted requests for authenticating the application server and said HTTP client application to one another;
• said HTTP client application requesting a first universal resource locator (URL) from said HTTP server for accepting work requests from said application server, and requesting a second URL different from the first URL from said HTTP server for responding to work requests from said application server, and said HTTP client application and said HTTP server further providing sequencing information with the HTTP formatted requests.

A method for interfacing an application server and at least one communications device using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) server, the application server and the at least one client communications device for processing requests from one another, and the at least one communications device processing requests using an HTTP client application, the method comprising:

• formatting requests to be communicated between the HTTP server and the HTTP client application via the Internet in an HTTP format;
• providing additional state information with the HTTP formatted requests communicated between the HTTP server and the HTTP client application for authenticating the application server and the HTTP client application to one another, the respective additional state information of the HTTP server and the HTTP client application being recognizable by the other;
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• at the HTTP client application, requesting a first universal resource locator (URL) from the HTTP server for accepting work requests from the application server, and requesting a second URL different from the first URL from the HTTP server for responding to work requests from the application server.