Re: IE Cookie Help

We ran into this too with IE because our secure site is technically a
different URL than our regular site, so it treats it as it would a
"third-party" cookie.  Things got even more interesting when, in some cases,
the user ended up in frames when visiting our store.

We found out that IE has a nice privacy "feature" which entails having to
install a privacy policy using the P3P method, where you can define all the
URLs that it should treat as primary domains and not third party ones.
Allegedly this is supposed to be a Really Good Thing (tm) but I see very few
sites that use it (well, actually, there are more out there now because IE
forces you into it).

The specific URL on w3's site is:
http://www.w3.org/P3P/details.html

This will give you step-by-step instructions on creating a P3P privacy
policy.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Dossett" <hwg(at)miscsites.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:16 PM
Subject: IE Cookie Help


> Hello all:
>
> I've run into a problem I'm not understanding.  I have a shopping cart
> page that tracks the individual shopping cart by a unique cookie id.
> Recently I discovered that under some privacy security levels in IE this
> seems to break.  I initially create the cookie, then immediately test to
> see if it's there and it is.  I then redirect to the same page, just
> with different url parameters and test for the cookie again and now it's
> gone.  At medium or low security setting this doesn't happen, but at
> high it does.  Anyone know why it drops the cookie upon redirection?
> Any way around this besides using a form or url parameter to pass the
> cart id?
>
> Thanks in advance for any guidance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Doug Dossett
>

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