- From: Lorrie Cranor <lorrie@research.att.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:27:11 -0500
- To: <PVenkatachalam@inautix.com>, <www-p3p-policy@w3.org>
On 1/14/03 10:02 AM, "PVenkatachalam@inautix.com" <PVenkatachalam@inautix.com> wrote: > > Hello Folks, > > Just a few clarifications on Internet Explorer 6.0's Policy & P3P. > > 1) Viewing Policy file with Proxy > > During an implementation of P3P, I came across a problem where I was > not able to view my sites P3P Policy using IE6.0 if I connected > through a proxy. > > The scenario was, when I try to view the sites policy through IE > the IE sends a GET /w3c/p3p.xml which is rejected by the proxy server > ( Microsoft ISA). > The proxy server rejects the request for authentication. > > However, for a normal rejected http request ( i.e when retrieving a > html page) > IE seems to send the GET request second time with the authentication > information. > > But this kind of *repeat try* pattern is not followed when retreving > the > Policy file by the IE6 policy window. > > I was clueless of this issue until I ran a packet sniffer. > After this I tried a direct connection and things worked. > > Is this a known issue ? > Yes this is a known issue. > 2) P3P HTML Link Tag > This is regarding the policy reference link tag (present in the html) > with IE6. > > The issue I had was I had created a customized directory where I > placed the > policy reference file. However IE always tried to pick it up from the > /w3c/p3p.xml. > > Any idea why IE doesnt look in the customised policy reference > location ? IE6 (and all P3P user agents) should first check /w3c/p3p.xml -- if they don't find a policy reference file there they will then look for a P3P header and/or a link tag. Lorrie -- Lorrie Faith Cranor - http://lorrie.cranor.org/ P3P Specification Working Group Chair - http://www.w3.org/p3p/ New book: Web Privacy with P3P - http://p3pbook.com/
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