- From: Lorrie Cranor <lorrie@research.att.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:38:38 -0400
- To: "Martin Kiff" <mgk@webfeet.co.uk>, <www-p3p-policy@w3.org>
Martin Kiff wrote: > Lorrie Cranor wrote: > > > .... The path > > attribute specifies the location of the hinted policy reference files > > relative to the > > applicable host rather than the policy reference file containing the hint. > > Does that imply that if there's content across several servers the user > agent will need to retrieve policies separately from each? (I can see > that this is the direction that things are going but I wonder about the > overhead...) A user agent has to retrieve a policy reference file for each server. The policy reference files may all reference the same policy, in which case it only needs to be retrieved once. > It would be nice to have the _ability_ to have all p3p information for a > site (which may be distributed over several servers in terms of embedded > content, references or redirection) managed in one XML file hosted in > one place. > > What are the options for doing this? The policy can be hosted in one place. But each server must have its own policy reference file if the well-known location mechanism is used. If the header or link tag mechanism is used, it is possible to have a single policy reference file as long as the servers all have the same directory structure or if one policy is used everywhere. Change S13 at http://www.w3.org/p3p/updates.html enables this. Regards, Lorrie Cranor
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