System and method for preserving post data on a server system

19) In a server system comprising a processor coupled to a bus and a memory coupled to said bus, a computer readable medium comprising instructions that when executed implement a method of accessing information said method comprising:

• a) using a generic cache agent to transparently intercept a post request made by a client for a resource accessible from a server;
• b) creating an URI unique to said post request;
• c) storing said URI and post data associated with said post request in a cache memory,
• d) redirecting said client to an authentication URL to authenticate said client;
• e) after authentication, retrieving said post data from said cache memory;
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• f) creating an HTML page comprising said post data.

30) A method of processing data comprising:

• a) in response to a web page submission from a user, intercepting an associated request containing post data and determining if said request contains a valid identifier;
• b) if said request does not contain said valid identifier, then associating with said request a particular URI that is unique to said request, storing said post data in a cache memory according to said URI and redirecting said request to an authentication session to authenticate said user;
• c) in response to authentication of said user, intercepting said request a second time, locating said URI in said request and obtaining said post data from said memory cache using said URI;
• and
• d) recreating said web page containing said post data.