Userid and cookie managers for internet browsers

摘要

A status bar 201 is included on a web browser frame 200 which has icons 207 and 212 that are used to indicate that the browser is sending a userid/username and/or cookie data to a given website. By clicking on the login icon 207 a user can reset their userid so that they can log in again as a different users (ie systems admin). Resetting their user id strips the userid from the request header sent from their browser to a given website. By clicking on the cookie icon 212 a cookie dialogue (figure 4) appears and presents a list of all the cookies (together with their attributes) that were sent to the present web server. The user is able to select and modify a cookie from the list, for example the user may block the sending of a cookie to a given url address. Userid and cookie summary information are displayed alongside the icons.