Client-side HTTP translator

A network communications method for a network gateway device, comprising:

• receiving from a client device via a client-side local area network over plural TCP connections established with the client device, an HTTP compliant request stream including one or more HTTP compliant requests formatted according to an HTTP compliant application level protocol, the HTTP compliant request stream initiated by the client device over the plural TCP connections;
• translating the HTTP compliant request stream into an HTTP non-compliant request stream including one or more HTTP non-compliant requests formatted according to an HTTP non-compliant application level protocol by multiplexing the HTTP non-compliant request stream for transmission over a lesser number of TCP connections than the plural TCP connections over which the HTTP compliant request stream was received from the client device;
• forwarding the HTTP non-compliant request stream to a server device via a server-side wide area network over the lesser number of TCP connections;
• receiving from the server device via the server-side wide area network, an HTTP non-compliant response stream including one or more HTTP non-compliant responses formatted according to the HTTP non-compliant application level protocol;
• translating the HTTP non-compliant response stream into an HTTP compliant response stream including one or more HTTP compliant responses formatted according to the HTTP compliant application level protocol by de-multiplexing the HTTP non-compliant response stream for transmission over the plural TCP connections;
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• forwarding the HTTP compliant response stream to the client device via the client-side local area network over the plural TCP connections.

A network gateway device for facilitating a client-side local area network having one or more client devices, the network gateway device configured to:

• receive from the one or more client devices via the client-side local area network, one or more encrypted HTTP compliant request streams from each of the one or more client devices over plural TCP connections established with each of the one or more client devices, each encrypted HTTP compliant request stream including one or more HTTP compliant requests formatted according to an HTTP compliant application level protocol by a respective client device, each encrypted HTTP compliant request stream initiated by a respective client device over respective plural TCP connections with the network gateway device;
• decrypt the one or more encrypted HTTP compliant request streams to obtain one or more decrypted HTTP compliant request streams;
• translate the one or more decrypted HTTP compliant request streams into one or more re-encrypted HTTP non-compliant request streams addressed to one or more server device, each re-encrypted HTTP non-compliant request stream including one or more HTTP non-compliant requests formatted according to an HTTP non-compliant application level protocol;
• route the one or more re-encrypted HTTP non-compliant request streams to the one or more server devices via a server-side wide area network by multiplexing the one or more re-encrypted HTTP non-compliant request streams over a lesser number of TCP connections than the plural TCP connections;
• receive from the one or more server devices via the server-side wide area network, one or more encrypted HTTP non-compliant response streams, each encrypted HTTP non-compliant response stream including one or more HTTP non-compliant responses formatted according to the HTTP non-compliant application level protocol;
• decrypt the one or more encrypted HTTP non-compliant response streams to obtain one or more decrypted HTTP non-compliant response streams;
• translate the one or more decrypted HTTP non-compliant response streams into one or more re-encrypted HTTP compliant response streams addressed to the one or more client devices, each re-encrypted HTTP compliant response stream including one or more HTTP compliant responses formatted according to the HTTP compliant application level protocol;
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• route the one or more re-encrypted HTTP compliant response streams to the one or more client devices via the client-side local area network by de-multiplexing the one or more re-encrypted HTTP compliant request streams over the plural TCP connections established with each of the one or more client devices.