Flexible teleport architecture

A computer-readable storage medium containing instructions for controlling a computing system to process a URL comprising:

• receiving from a computing device an input URL;
• providing a plurality of teleport entries, each teleport entry having a parameter directive, some of the teleport entries including a designation of a language and/or culture;
• determining whether the input URL includes a designation of a language and/or culture;
• responsive to determining that the input URL does not include a designation of a language and/or culture, generating a destination URL that identifies content that is addressed by the input URL by identifying a teleport entry that matches the input URL and renaming a parameter of the input URL to a different name in the destination URL in accordance with the parameter directive of the matching teleport entry;
• responsive to determining that the input URL includes a designation of a language and/or culture:
• determining whether there is content that is addressed by the input URL and that is dependent on the language and/or culture designation in the input URL;
• and
• responsive to determining that there is content that is addressed by the input URL and that is dependent on the language and/or culture designation in the input URL, generating a destination URL that identifies this content by identifying a teleport entry that matches the input URL along with its language and/or culture designation and renaming a parameter of the input URL to a different name in the destination URL in accordance with the parameter directive of the matching teleport entry;
• and
• sending the generated destination URL to the computing device with an indication that the destination URL is a redirection of the input URL.

A computing system with a central processing unit and a memory for processing a URL comprising:

• a component that receives from a computing device an input URL;
• a component that provides a plurality of teleport entries, each teleport entry having a parameter directive, some of the teleport entries including a designation of a language and/or culture;
• a component that determines whether the input URL includes a designation of a language and/or culture;
• a component that, responsive to determining that the input URL does not include a designation of a language and/or culture, generates a destination URL that identifies content that is addressed by the input URL by identifying a teleport entry that matches the input URL and renaming a parameter of the input URL to a different name in the destination URL in accordance with the parameter directive of the matching teleport entry;
• a component that, responsive to determining that the input URL includes a designation of a language and/or culture,
• determines whether there is content that is addressed by the input URL and that is dependent on the language and/or culture designation in the input URL;
• and
• responsive to determining that there is content that is addressed by the input URL and that is dependent on the language and/or culture designation in the input URL, generates a destination URL that identifies this content by identifying a teleport entry that matches the input URL along with its language and/or culture designation and renaming a parameter of the input URL to a different name in the destination URL in accordance with the parameter directive of the matching teleport entry;
• and
• a component that sends the generated destination URL to the computing device with an indication that the destination URL is a redirection of the input URL.