normal communications is a completely transparent communication path in other words prior to the occurrence of a trigger event the proxy 16 may do nothing in one embodiment other than to merely transfer communications between the client 12 and the server 22 thus a session may exist between the client 12 and the server 22 which is substantially unaffected by the proxy device 16 the proxy device 16 may be a processor based system in one embodiment of the present invention thus the device 16 may include its own processor and may be coupled to a storage device 18 the storage device 18 may be any of a variety of known storage devices such as a hard disk drive or a flash memory as two examples software 20 for controlling the operation of the proxy device 16 may be stored in the storage device 18 the proxy device 16 may include a proxy engine that will be described in more detail hereinafter the proxy device 16 may be a dedicated use inbound proxy in one embodiment the proxy device 16 may be coupled to a shadow browser 24 the shadow browser 24 may be a client processor based system in one embodiment the proxy device 16 and shadow browser 24 are on the server side of the client server communication protocol with respect to the network 14 thus the proxy device 16 and the shadow browser.