1. A proxy system for accelerated delivery of objects to a requestor, said proxy system comprising: an object storage device for storing objects, said object storage device uses a file system that supports directories to store the objects in files at directory locations within said object storage device, for each of the objects the directory location where the object is to be stored is identified by an object locator associated with the network together with state and authorization information; and a proxy server coupled between the requester's computer and a network of computers, said proxy server intercepts a request for an object from the requester's computer to the network of computers, and then satisfies the request by delivering the object requested from said object storage device to the requestor's computer, the object requested from said object storage device is retrieved from said object storage device using a combination of an object locator obtained from the request together with state and authorization information associated with the request.