answers to a few questions about IE6

I ran some of the questions that have been raised
on this list about IE6 by one of the IE6 developers.
Here are the answers....

Q: Can you get the privacy report if you access the web
through a proxy?

A: there is a known issue here. If the proxy requires authentication then
the policy fetch will fail. This is because we do not support proxy
authentication for policy retrieval. This is known issue and may be 
addressed in a future service pack release. 


Q: Will IE6 read compact policies from secure servers?

A: If people use http set-cookie, and IE handles those headers 
then compact policies will be read as user
preferences dictate.  Thus if a user goes to https://site.com with
default preferences then, yes, IE will process compact policies. 


Also note that a bug was found recently where the wrong
privacy report is displayed when sites use the METHOD element
in their PRF. See
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q306061
for details.

If you find any reproducable instances of wrong IE6 behavior
with respect to P3P, please post the details and the IE6 folks
will look into them.

Lorrie

Received on Wednesday, 12 December 2001 19:31:39 UTC