[FX.php List] P3P (Was: Using cookies/not using cookies)

[Jonathan Schwartz]

This P3P stuff is new...at least to me.

Anyone else have P3P policies like the ones that policyeditor produces?

The  "sales ends today" is a bit of a cooincidence/turnoff).

Jonathan

At 4:24 PM -0500 5/16/07, Bob Patin wrote:
>Alex,
>
>Check out Andrew's message to me earlier today; there's a "P3P 
>compliance" page that needs to be put on a site.
>
>I went to
>
>http://www.w3.org/P3P/details.html
>
>and then went to
>
>http://policyeditor.com/
>
>and created a policy online for $39.
>
>I hope it works... haven't tested it yet on IE6.
>
>Bob Patin
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>On May 16, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Alex Gates wrote:
>
>>I'm not sure if this is related or not, but I just realized something
>>interesting -
>>
>>Safari has a default "feature" that accepts cookies "only from sites you
>>navigate to."  If explains "For example, not from advertisers on those
>>sites."
>>
>>I'm using LAJAX to post a to a page that uses the post variable as a GET
>>parameter to load a an iframe source hosted on "webserver2" that queries FM
>>Server on "webserver1" - then sets session arrays with the returned data and
>>pushes to another page on "webserver2" that uses a different FX file to
>>write the records to FM server on "webserver2"
>>In short, it allows a user to submit their order on our public webserver and
>>then have all their data automatically move to our non-public filemaker
>>server - - this was, what I thought, a great workaround to "same as origin"
>>javascript security rule.
>>
>>It works well on IE and Firefox - but the default is safari won't accept the
>>cookie to save the session info on an iFrame that loads data from an outside
>>source.
>>
>>Just when I thought I had it figured out...
>>
>>Alex
>>
>>
>>
>>From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
>>[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Bob Patin
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 6:28 PM
>>To: FX.php Discussion List
>>Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Using cookies/not using cookies
>>
>>Hi Dale,
>>
>>I've decided not to turn off cookies; I don't want some of the flags to show
>>in the address bar...
>>
>>I've spent hours trying to work around this issue, but I think I'm going to
>>have to give up on it; there must be something about ASP that blocks
>>cookie-writing by "embedded" sites; it's hard to believe that something
>>written by Microsoft would cause a problem like this! :)
>>
>>On May 15, 2007, at 6:23 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:
>>
>>
>>Hi Bob,
>>
>>I seem to recall there is no php.ini accompanying the default install of PHP
>>on OS X, so you'll need to make one from the "lurking" default file. In
>>Terminal:
>>
>>cd /private/etc/
>>ls [to see if it's there already; if not then do the next step]
>>cp php.ini.default php.ini
>>sudo pico php.ini
>>
>>Then restart Apache to pick up the changes.
>>
>>Dale
>>
>>
>>
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