1. A communications system comprising: an application server and at least one communications device for processing requests from one another, said at least one communications device processing requests using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) client application; and an HTTP server for interfacing said HTTP client application with said application server; said HTTP server and said HTTP client application formatting requests to be communicated therebetween via the Internet in an HTTP format, and each providing additional state information with the HTTP formatted requests recognizable by the other for authenticating the application server and said HTTP client application to one another; said HTTP client application requesting a first universal resource locator (URL) from said HTTP server for accepting work requests from said application server, and requesting a second URL different from the first URL from said HTTP server for responding to work requests from said application server.