P3P = Platform for Privacy Preferences W3C spec for what sites do with your personal info.
IIRC, default option for IE6 will not accept cookies (other that session scope ones) if a site does not have a P3P descriptor on your site. Obviously this can be changed, but since most IE users never get round to changing the default preferences... More info on setting your site to be P3P compliant: http://www.w3.org/P3P/usep3p.html HTH david ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin van den Bemt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 4:42 PM Subject: RE: REPOST: NEED HELP URGENT:: internet explorer nullifies session on open new window > I don't know what p3p is ... Enlighten me ;)) > > > Mvgr, > Martin > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 5:45 PM > > To: Tomcat Users List > > Subject: Re: REPOST: NEED HELP URGENT:: internet explorer nullifies > > session on open new window > > > > > > Would that be a P3P issue? > > > > If so, you need to define P3P policy descriptors on your site... > > > > david > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Martin van den Bemt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 3:54 PM > > Subject: RE: REPOST: NEED HELP URGENT:: internet explorer > > nullifies session > > on open new window > > > > > > > It seems that ie 6 isn't accepting cookies by default (collegue > > of mine is > > > also using ie 6 and had the same problem, even in 1 window). He set a > > > certain option and everything was working again. Can you confirm that > > that > > > is the default, else everyone must start using url rewriting to keep ie6 > > > users happy > > > > > > Mvgr, > > > Martin > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Jim Urban [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 4:21 PM > > > > To: Tomcat Users List > > > > Subject: RE: REPOST: NEED HELP URGENT:: internet explorer nullifies > > > > session on open new window > > > > > > > > > > > > Our application does the same thing (openning child browser > > windows and > > > > closing them) and we have no problems with IE 5.5. We have not tried > > I.E. > > > > 6.0 yet, so I can't comment on that. We are running Tomcat 4.0 on Win > > NT > > > > and 2K. > > > > > > > > Jim > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Amit Kelkar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:01 AM > > > > To: Tomcat Users List > > > > Subject: REPOST: NEED HELP URGENT:: internet explorer > > nullifies session > > > > on open new window > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Amit Kelkar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, 13 November 2001 6:41 PM > > > > To: Tomcat Users List > > > > Subject: internet explorer nullifies session on open new window > > > > > > > > The application we are coding requires a new window to be opened. This > > new > > > > window may just contain a JavaScript calendar or a JSP page > > > > (dispatched by a > > > > servlet). > > > > > > > > We have been using Internet Explorer 5 till recently to run the > > > > application > > > > and this has been fine. But we recently upgraded to I.E. 5.5 > > and 6.0. In > > > > both of the new versions, when a new window is opened and then closed, > > the > > > > session in the original window gets nullified. > > > > > > > > For example, there are places where I need to see a calendar, so > > > > I open this > > > > calendar in a new window, I use the calendar, then I close > > the calendar > > > > window. I then press a button (in the main window) to go to > > > > another page in > > > > my application, where all the session values are now > > displayed as null. > > > > Subsequent system error statements show that the session is > > indeed null. > > > > > > > > I am not sure this is a tomcat problem or a IE problem (probably a IE > > > > problem), but was wondering if anybody has experienced anything > > > > similar and > > > > if they have solved the problem... > > > > > > > > Note: I am using tomcat 4.01 > > > > > > > > Thanks much in advance, > > > > > > > > > > > > Amit Kelkar > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
