RE: 3rd-party cookies not working

Jess:

 We've noticed that some releases (non-beta) of IE 6 behave differently than
others with respect to our third party context cookie.

 It may not be your cookie, it may be your browser that's causing your
grief.

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Kevin Speicher
Director of News Special Projects
Bell Globemedia Interactive


-----Original Message-----
From: jesso2000@earthlink.net [mailto:jesso2000@earthlink.net] 
Sent: December 14, 2001 07:34 PM
To: www-p3p-policy@w3.org
Subject: 3rd-party cookies not working


Well, after literally a week of research and testing I still can't get IE6
to read our cookies in a 3rd-party setting - it continually blocks them
in the default medium setting. We are sending our CP in all headers,
all the tools we've tried such as http://www.davidjonathangrant.info/p3p/
say that everything we're doing is correct, etc. etc. but the cookies
just can't be read in a 3rd-party setting at the default medium level.

What I really don't understand is that according to IE6 there are only
2 circumstances in which a 3rd-party cookie will be blocked in the
default medium setting. And I quote:

Medium

- Blocks third-party cookies that do not have a compact privacy policy

- Blocks third-party cookies that use personally identifiable information
   without your implicit consent.

The thing that kills is that neither of these cases is true, so why would
IE6 be blocking our cookies? We do have a compact privacy policy with
the correct CP header being sent with all requests, and it states that we
do not use personally identifiable information, so how the heck can IE6
block our cookies? Is anyone successfully using 3rd-party cookies that
actually work properly in the default medium setting? If so I would give
my first born for the details. Is this a bug in IE6 or am I missing
something?

Thanks,

Jess

Received on Monday, 17 December 2001 08:20:09 UTC