A method and apparatus are provided for establishing a communication connection
between a client of a website and an agent of the website. The method includes
the steps of downloading a webpage from the website to the client, such webpage
including an embedded agent access applet and a communication system port identifier
of the agent, the communication port identifier of the agent being different than
a communication port identifier of the web site, activating the agent access applet
within the downloaded webpage and forming a communication connection between the
client and the communication system port of the agent based upon operation of the
activated applet.