In a distributed computing system having a network of clients and servers, said clients sending resource requests to said servers, a computer-implemented method of using a resource manager in said distributed computing system for intermediating between said clients and servers, said method including the steps of: a) said resource manager intercepting said resource requests from said clients; b) said resource manager fetching objects from servers to satisfy said resource requests from said clients, said objects fetched from said servers having respective resource locators identifying the respective sources of the objects fetched from said clients; c) said resource manager modifying said resource locators to identify said resource manager as a source for the objects fetched from the servers to satisfy said resource requests from said clients; and d) said resource manager returning the fetched objects and modified resource locators to said clients. view more