On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Mark Fowler wrote:

> (sorry to break threading but I'm getting this from multiple lists)
> 
> > that IE 6 (beta at the time) considered my cookies to be third party
> > because I used frame-based domain redirection and by default would not
> > accept them.
> 
> You need to include a P3P header in your HTTP header that contains a
> Compact Policy (CP) - a geek code of what your P3P xml privacy document
> contains.  See http://www.w3c.org/P3P/.
> 
> Some research I did seems to indicate that current implementations of IE6
>  will accept cookies no matter what CP you use (rather than checking it
> against your security settings and deciding if the CP represents a
> privacy policy that violates your chosen level of disclosure.)  I'd really
> appreciate it other people could check this and confirm that IE6 is not
> offering any actual privacy level protection and is just discriminated
> against people that don't have P3P headers.

I found that IE6 require P3P header with medium and higher security
settings but CP content doesn't matter - it need simply P3P: CP='anything'.

Igor Sysoev

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