Patent ID: 7913302

Claim:
A method of responding to a web site, the method comprising: receiving at a web server an electronic message comprising a uniform resource locator (“URL”) referencing a web site; accessing the web site by the web server referenced by the URL; downloading by the web server an online form provided by the web site, the online form comprising a plurality of fields configured to allow a user to provide information to the web site; identifying by the web server a test on the web site, the test being designed to identify a user by reference to an electronic message transmitted by an operator of the web site and comprising a URL referencing the web site; creating by the web server a set of safe data comprising a plurality of data elements, each of the data elements corresponding to one of the online form's plurality of fields; and ensuring by the web server that the set of safe data does not violate the test on the web site by identifying a user to whom the operator of the web site believes an electronic message was transmitted.