Trusted services broker for web page fine-grained security labeling

A method of limiting access to information stored in HTML files on a fine-grained basis and independent of HTML contents, accessible by a web server through a CGI script, according to security label constructs imbedded within web-server stored HTML, said information comprising a definition of HTML label structures recognizable by said CGI script, said method comprising steps of

• dynamically storing at said web server a mapping of a web cookie value to user credentials retrieved from CGI accessible registry storage, thereby establishing said web cookie as a security cookie in said mapping,
• creating a set of said credentials by prompting a user for authentication information, validating said authentication information against user information retrieved from said CGI accessible registry storage, performed in response to a request for retrieval of a stored HTML file that was not accompanied by a recognized web cookie name and value as contained within said mapping,
• retrieving said stored HTML file in response to a request from a user accompanied by said security cookie value,
• filtering said stored HTML file with said CGI scripts as a function of security label constructs embedded in the HTML file in accordance with a comparison to said user credentials associated with said security cookie value to form filtered information in the form of standard HTML in accordance with said HTML label structures, and
• returning said filtered information to said user.