Patent ID: 8705565

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, using a browser, information at a user terminal; the browser generating a first message comprising the information using a first communication protocol for despatch over a communications network via a network port, the first message including an identifier of a first network entity; intercepting the first message at a client executed at the user terminal before the first message reaches the network port; determining whether the first message includes a nonsecure marker string or a secure marker string, the nonsecure marker string reciting the term nonsecure, and the secure marker string reciting the term secure; encrypting the first message if the first message includes the secure marker string; wrapping the first message in a second message of a second communication protocol used for transmitting messages between the client and a second network entity, and including user information with the second message if it is determined that the first message includes the secure marker string; and transmitting the second message to the second network entity over the communications network effective to cause the second network entity to unwrap the first message from the second message, translate the identifier of the first network entity to a network address of the first network entity, and transmit the first message to the first network entity over the communications network.