P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences) are two really nice things to be aware of when developing web applications.
If your website targets children, maybe you sell toys, you should know about products like
World Wide Web Consortium created PICS.
You can then label your website with a set of codes that tell products like NetNanny about the content of your site.
If you don't label your website, you run the risk of being blocked by these kinds of products.
P3P is about securing the users privacy and for web developers it's about the permission to set cookies on the user's browser.
Well, that and other things which are not important right now. Internet Explorer supports it very well, which makes it a no-brainer to implement, since it's the worlds most used browser.
You could risk that a user does not accept your cookies and that could ruin his or hers experience on your site. If you are about to create third-party cookies, you definitely need a P3P policy.
It is normally quite cumbersome to creating P3P policy files and creating a PICS label from
Remember, this is a quick fix - not the whole shebang, but it works. Enjoy.


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