P3P Privacy Policies and Cookies ???

[TechHeadz]

Some people with modified internet settings on IE6 seem to have problems with cookies not being accepted. A P3P privacy thingy in the header should fix this..

Please discuss

[SHS`]

http://www.w3.org/P3P/

[TechHeadz]

Have they been implemented in PhpBB2 ????
This forum never remembers me anymore

[promil]

Take a look at this for a solution.

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=72896

promil

[cosmos]

Have they been implemented in PhpBB2 ????

This is not a phpBB issue at all, but rather one that should resolved by the actual forum administrator. IOW, no need to actually change your phpBB templates/code, since this is not about a bug fix or whatever.

A P3P policy is something like a description of how a site/board handles personal information. Does it track cookies? How? For how long? Is identifiable information shared with others? For which purpose? Etc, etc.

Therefore, each web site (phpBB included as part of a site) requires a different P3P "statement of privacy" (sort of anyway).

Now, supposing you've got into great pains to create a policy, you can easily transmit it using the Apache directive Header. No need to fiddle with phpBB...

One final word, even if you have created and installed everything in order to transmit this P3P privacy statement in your site, a P3P compliant browser may not be able to login succesfully! Why? Simply because the remote user has elected to not submit cookies to sites that share personally identifiable information and your policy states that the web site does share it... In this case it is a feature!