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The web is growing at an exponential rate. Companies, academic institutions, government, and many other agencies are all moving toward this "universal information highway". As the amount of hypermedia meterials increases, the burden on top of HTTP servers gets aggravated. It is an essential task to find a mechanism in which hypermedia data can be collected and stored in a central repository, and requested information can be forwarded to outside clients within a reasonable period of time. We have proposed, implemented, and tested several models. The result shows clearly the superiority distributed HTTP servers over stand-alone servers. Furthermore, HTML document access patterns are discussed, and suggestions for future implementation of HTTP are presented . A clever and scalable model can be implemented with few changes in the current protocol and communication scheme.