> What if your system is governed by a domain and an IE which > has all that all ready turned off etc? In a nutshell - not > cookies, no go.
Not in anything I have came across... which is why I sez 'Most of my apps can do this and I do realise that not all can get away...' > IE6 naturally tries to block cookies that it doesn't "like", > so building a Privacy Policy gets around that Depends your setting, I generally browse with 'Block All Cookies' Therefore the browser doesn't accept cookies and will not even if it has the most blindin' privacy policy on the planet. The Temporary cookies are only there for the page request and then their gone, not for the browser session as far as I know Building the Privacy policy will only help you if they have a setting below Block All Cookies... which leads me on to my next rant... Plus, how easy is it to cheat this anyway, I spent four days in total (around 24 hours work down the tweaking a Privacy Policy for a site that was being displayed in another site's frameset (ie ecommerce portal).... I made it as true as I could to the company's actual practised privacy policy and use of info on the site. Would IE accept the cookie? No it fugging would not <grrrr> (and yes it was validated against the W3C Validator) Cos I was then termed the third party site, it blocked all cookies, I would get it to work, it would work for a week, then with no changes to the actual site, it would suddenly stop working, no cookies were getting set again and back to square one, no session state, no shopping by any visitors What did I do? I added a response header into every page with a simple compact privacy policy that reflected the very basic allowed by the IBM P3P editor and voila, been working for the last 6 months or so.... I was being paid for the site and not the time and it was just eating up my time and actually ended up negating pretty much all I got for the site in particular :-( The P3P is a lot of crap. I don't trust it when I am browsing, do you? What chance is it if they can't turn on/off there cookies, how are they going to know much about the Privacy controls anyway > > Fairly briskly and correct me if I am wrong,,,, > > > > Building a Privacy Policy still aint going to help you if > the user has > > cookies turned off, no web server cookie will be set so the > web server > > won't remember you for the next Request (assuming no developer > > intervention) > > > > No Cookies, No Web Server Sessions, No maintaining of state between > > request without developer intervention..... > > True, but since most people wouldn't know HOW to turn off > cookies, then you can expect that a large portion of the > population will still have them enabled > > IE6 naturally tries to block cookies that it doesn't "like", > so building a Privacy Policy gets around that > > Temporary cookies should always be there, as there's nothing > stored - as soon as you close the browser, then it's gone... > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
