Remote method invocation tunneling over hypertext transfer protocol

A computer-implemented method for network tunneling, the method comprising:

• receiving an HTTP request at a server computer, the HTTP request encapsulating a first protocol message;
• receiving an empty HTTP request at a configurable time interval at the server computer for server callback, wherein the configurable time interval is computed based on:
• an adaptive ping timeout estimated based on previous non-empty HTTP request and a HTTP response;
• a ping time proposal computed based on a time period between a client computer receiving a non-empty HTTP request and a HTTP response, and a start of a last HTTP request;
• and
• a configurable margin of the ping timeout, wherein upon determining that the ping timeout proposal is greater than an upper margin set the ping timeout proposal to the upper margin, and upon determining that the ping timeout proposal is lower than a lower margin set the ping timeout proposal to the lower margin;
• parsing the HTTP request at the server computer and reconstructing the first protocol message;
• executing the first protocol message at the server computer and generating a second protocol message;
• sending the second protocol message to an outgoing queue of the server computer;
• and
• releasing the second protocol message from the outgoing queue of the server computer as a HTTP response to a client computer.

A computer system for network tunneling, the system comprising:

• a computer memory to store program code;
• and
• a processor to execute the program code to:
• a server computer to receive an HTTP request encapsulating a first protocol message;
• the server computer to receive an empty HTTP request at a configurable time interval at the server computer for server callback, wherein the configurable time interval is computed based on:
• an adaptive ping timeout estimated based on previous non-empty HTTP request and a HTTP response;
• a ping timeout proposal computed based on a time period between a client computer receiving a non-empty HTTP request and a HTTP response, and a start of a last HTTP request;
• and
• a configurable margin of the ping timeout, wherein upon determining that the ping timeout proposal is greater than an upper margin set the ping timeout proposal to the upper margin, and upon determining that the ping timeout proposal is lower than a lower margin set the ping timeout proposal to the lower margin;
• a parser module within the server computer, the parser module to parse the HTTP request and reconstruct the first protocol message;
• a dispatcher module within the server computer to execute the first protocol message and generate a second protocol message;
• and
• a queue module within the server computer, the queue module to collect the second protocol message and prepare it for sending to a client computer as a HTTP response.