Non-Intrusive Proxy System and Method for Applications Without Proxy Support

A system for communicating with a server using a redirection application residing on a device and non-proxy-enabled module residing on the device, which take addresses or uniform resource locators (URLs) as the input to establish connections, the system comprising:

• a device including a processor;
• a hyper-proxy that initiates a connection to a server;
• and
• a redirection application that transmits an original address (ADD) to a hyper-proxy, wherein the hyper-proxy returns a new address (ADD′) to the redirection application, wherein the new address (ADD′) contains all the information about the original address (ADD) but points to the hyper-proxy;
• wherein the redirection application transmits the new address (ADD′) to the non-proxy-enabled module, the non-proxy-enabled module establishing a connection to the hyper-proxy using the standard transport protocol;
• wherein the hyper-proxy extracts the original address (ADD) from the new address (ADD′) using a processor, and forwards a request to the destination server indicated by the original address (ADD) using a custom protocol;
• and
• wherein data is received at the hyper-proxy from a destination server using the custom protocol, wherein the custom protocol used to communicate between the hyper-proxy and destination server is different than the standard transport protocol used to communicate between the hyper-proxy and the non-proxy-enabled module, wherein the data is forwarded from the destination server to the non-proxy-enabled module.

A system for communicating with a server through a proxy using a redirection application to enable non-proxy-enabled media player modules to use a streaming protocol with a playlist, the system comprising:

• a device including a processor;
• a hyper-proxy that initiates a connection to a server;
• a redirection application that transmits an original address (ADD) of a playlist to the hyper-proxy, wherein the hyper-proxy returns a new address (ADD′) to the redirection application, and wherein the new address (ADD′) points to the hyper-proxy and contains all information about the original address (ADD);
• wherein the redirection application transmits the new address (ADD′) to the non-proxy-enabled media player module, and wherein the non-proxy-enabled media player module establishes a connection to the hyper-proxy;
• wherein the hyper-proxy receives the playlist from the server, modifies the addresses in the playlist, which enables the modified addresses to point to the hyper-proxy and contain all the information about the original address, the hyper-proxy providing the modified playlist to the media player.