Patent ID: 8539224

Claim:
A method for obscuring form data in forms embedded in web pages to be transmitted in outbound messages, comprising using a processor of a computer for: searching content of a web page to locate a form embedded therein; responsive to locating the embedded form, obscuring form data of the embedded form, comprising: removing, from the embedded form, each of at least one hidden form field embedded therein; creating a parameter string from the each of at least one removed hidden form field; appending the created parameter string to location information for the embedded form, thereby creating a parameterized version of the location information, the location information comprising content of an action link embedded in the embedded form and specifying an intended recipient for processing the content of the web page; obscuring a portion of the parameterized version of the location information, thereby creating an obscured version of the parameterized version in which the at least one removed hidden form field is recoverable upon subsequently receiving the web page in an inbound message; and replacing the content of the action link with the obscured version of the parameterized version; and transmitting the web page in an outbound message.