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p3p pain in the arse

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  • 15-06-2003 2:58pm
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    nahdoic
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭


    If you've made any sites using cookies, you're going to have to add a p3p to them all if you want MSIE 6.0 users to be able to use your site.

    This caused an awful lot of trouble for my members, finally fixed now though. I found this very helpful.
    Question: What is P3P

    Answer: It is a W3C standard on how to specify privacy policies for a web site. The standard has both a human readable part to it, as well as a machine readable part. The standard can be found here: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-P3P-20001215/, with errata at http://www.w3.org/P3P/updates.html, and other information about it at [url]http://[/url] www.w3.org/P3P/.

    Question: Why is it important that I know anything about it?

    Answer: IE6 will be supporting a feature that reads the machine readable P3P policy of a web site. Depending on the settings in the options dialog, it may disable certain features of the browser, such as the capability of setting cookies, unless there is a P3P file in place, and the file matches the user's preferences. So unless you implement a P3P policy on your web site, some users may have a bad experience visiting your site.

    Question: How can I easily create P3P policies?

    Answer: The P3P file specification, and requirements for locating the files are given in the references above. However, I have personally found it difficult to read. There is a deployment guide at http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/NOTE-p3pdeployment-20010510 that is a somewhat easier guide. There is a free editor available for download from the IBM web site at http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/p3peditor. It works, although it is difficult to set up right the first time.

    Question: How do I know I did it right?

    Answer: There is a validator at http://www.w3.org/P3P/validator/20001215/, that will check out your web site and report any P3P problems.

    http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/788.htm


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    #2
    Webmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    Aw god not more validators, it was a pain to get through the WAI validation on bobby. :rolleyes:


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    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    Originally posted by Webmonkey
    Aw god not more validators, it was a pain to get through the WAI validation on bobby. :rolleyes:
    Yes, we should be able to do any ****e and have the little magick pixies that live in the browsers make it all better again.


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