Abstract: The present invention for guided touring of websites includes a web tour director programmed onto a web server for connecting a client system to a number of web sites in accordance with a web tour stop vector identifying the web sites as tour stops of a web guided tour. The present invention further includes a media rendering function also programmed onto the web server for rendering on the client system, one or more corresponding media for each of the web sites, for at least a portion of the time while the web site is connected to the client system.

Abstract: A system and a method are described for selecting and initiating security services for communication across computer networks. Negotiation is facilitated between nodes of a computer network to determine whether a security service is to be used, and if so, what particular method of providing the security service will be used. Communication with a wide range of different computer systems using different methods of providing various security services is thereby facilitated.