Patent attributes
A system, program storage device, and method of buffering an electronic document received from a host computer, wherein the method comprises determining whether an original source code of the electronic document includes executable coding which when executed by a client computer, causes the client computer to perform undesired operations, and producing an alternate source code of the electronic document, which eliminates the coding, wherein the undesired operations are characterized as undesirable based on predetermined settings established by the client computer. The electronic document comprises any of a web page, electronic mail message, an electronic mail attachment, a note in a hypertext format, a text document, a text file, and an application-specific electronic document. Each of the original source code and the alternate source code comprises a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) source code.
