Patent ID: 7865729

Claim:
A method of posting information on a webpage form to a server, comprising: establishing a connection between a client and the server; utilizing a presence of one or more entry fields of the webpage form requiring a secure posting of information to notify the client that the connection needs to be bidirectionally-authenticated; displaying a notification to indicate the connection has been bidirectionally-authenticated wherein the client has been authenticated at the server and the server has been authenticated at the client; replacing the information with curtain text as the information is being entered into at least one of the entry fields to indicate the bidirectionally-authenticated connection has been established; displaying the information literally and without curtain text as the information is being entered into at least one of the entry fields to indicate the bidirectionally-authenticated connection has not been established; and allowing the posting of the information entered in the one or more entry fields of the webpage form only when displaying the notification.