1. A method for aiding a user in navigating documents containing hyperlinks, the method comprising: storing reader preferences relating to information contained in the headers of secondary documents; including an audience category in the reader preferences, whereby the user may obtain a modified hyperlink indication of relevance to reader preferences by secondary document author; including an identification of a domain in the reader preferences, whereby the user may obtain a modified hyperlink indicating a secondary document from a predetermined source that the user expects to be useful; retrieving a document from a network location; parsing the document for hyperlinks associated with secondary documents; responsive to detecting a hyperlink, sending a request for the header of the secondary document associated with the hyperlink, wherein the header contains information corresponding to characteristics of the secondary document; receiving only the secondary document header from a hypertext server responding to the request; comparing the information within the header of the secondary document to the stored reader preferences; and modifying the presentation of the hyperlink to the user based on results of the comparison of the information contained within the header with the stored reader preferences.
1. A method for aiding a user in navigating documents containing hyperlinks, the method comprising: storing reader preferences relating to information contained in the headers of secondary documents; including an audience category in the reader preferences, whereby the user may obtain a modified hyperlink indication of relevance to reader preferences by secondary document author; including an identification of a domain in the reader preferences, whereby the user may obtain a modified hyperlink indicating a secondary document from a predetermined source that the user expects to be useful; retrieving a document from a network location; parsing the document for hyperlinks associated with secondary documents; responsive to detecting a hyperlink, sending a request for the header of the secondary document associated with the hyperlink, wherein the header contains information corresponding to characteristics of the secondary document; receiving only the secondary document header from a hypertext server responding to the request; comparing the information within the header of the secondary document to the stored reader preferences; and modifying the presentation of the hyperlink to the user based on results of the comparison of the information contained within the header with the stored reader preferences. 5. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the modification of the hyperlinks comprises presenting a graphic proximate to the hyperlink.