[Htmlunit-user] Web pages that guard against browsing through html

[Cameron M. <cam...@gm...>]

Hello,

I just have a general question about web page security.  I am using htmlunit
to attempt to complete some tasks on an https web page used for email.  I
can navigate to the page, and then login using my credentials, but as soon
as I attempt to click any meaningful link in the html (by meaningful I mean
links other than the 'Help' or 'Sign Out' links) I am brought to the session
timeout page.  I investigated further and navigated to the page manually and
viewed the Page Source, and discovered that clicking links in the Page
Source manually also brings me to the Session Timeout page (well, it brings
me to the source for the Session Timeout page).  So my question is how do
web pages guard against users browsing programmatically through the page's
html, and is there a way around this?

Thanks,
Cameron