Thomas J Scanlan

US Patent:

60292458, Feb 22, 2000

Filed:

Mar 25, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/823172

Inventors:

Thomas K. Scanlan - Raleigh NC

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1214

US Classification:

713200

Abstract:

A method and means are provided for dynamically assigning security parameters to hypertext markup language (HTML) pages of an information provider on the worldwide web, whereby only one set of HTML pages need be stored and maintained for retrieval by client computers using differing security protocols. A security injection profile is provided for storing security parameters for each respective security protocol. When a browser enabled with a particular security protocol requests one of the HTML pages in the secure set, the page is accessed from web server storage, security parameters of the particular protocol are accessed and injected into the accessed page, and the page is sent to the requesting browser.