CPC H04L 67/02 (2013.01) [H04L 47/562 (2013.01); H04L 67/01 (2022.05); H04L 67/146 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a first edge server of a plurality of edge servers of a first data center of a plurality of data centers of a distributed cloud computing network, a first request from a first user to access a web application hosted at an origin server;
assigning the first user to a first user bucket of a queue based on an arrival time of the first request at the first edge server;
transmitting a response to the first user that includes a page that indicates that the first user is queued, wherein the response also includes a first cookie that identifies the first user bucket;
receiving, at the first edge server, a second request from the first user to access the web application, the second request including the first cookie that identifies the first user bucket;
determining, based on at least a position of the first user bucket out of a plurality of user buckets of the queue and a number of slots eligible for access to the web application, to accept the first user to the web application; and
responsive to the determining to accept the first user to the web application, performing the following:
transmitting a third request to access the web application to the origin server,
receiving a first response to the third request from the origin server, and
transmitting the first response to the first user.
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