102 once the client system 101 has been authenticated cgi module 106 on the web server 104 will then start a persistent connection a web server u201c push u201d method to establish the server push stream 112 to the client system 101 this connection is used to send any encapsulated ip packets see fig3 destined to the client system 101 the server push stream 112 can be any web server u2018 push u2019 connection established using special http connection types such as content type multipart x mixed replace or can be contained as features in newer web based languages such as asynchronous javascript u2122 and xml ajax communication from client system 101 to server 102 takes place as follows transmit ip data packets 201 destined from the client system 101 to the server 102 over the invention 39 s vpn are placed inside an http packet 202 as post data by the invention client application 103 a call is then made to http libraries 116 on the computer system to create a connection to the web server 104 component of the server 102 the packet containing the ip packet as post data is then secured using ssl and then sent to the web server 104 as an http s post transmission 107 over the client system 39 s 101 physical network adapter.