RETRIEVING DATA RELATING TO A WEB PAGE PRIOR TO INITIATING VIEWING OF THE WEB PAGE

摘要

Data is stored in a server database relating to the availability and/or technical requirements for accessing web pages accessible at specific URLs. When a user browses a web page that includes hyperlinks to one or more other pages, stored availability/technical requirements data is retrieved from the server database and presented to the user to enable the user to decide whether or not to attempt to access one or more of the hyperlinked pages. The stored data may be retrieved for all hyperlinks on a web page when the page is first presented to the user or may be retrieved for a particular hyperlink only when a user has tentatively selected the particular hyperlink by a user action such as hovering a pointer icon over the hyperlink.