- From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:30:29 +0900
- To: www-p3p-public-comments@w3.org
A very basic question, for which I haven't seen a hard-and-fast answer in the P3P spec: Assume I load a page http://www.xyz.org/a, which points to a policy http://www.xyz.org/a.policy. Page 'a' also contains a form, with an 'action' URI of http://www.xyz.org/b, with a policy http://www.xyz.org/b.policy. If I fill in the form 'a' and send it in to 'b', which policy is my data submission covered by, http://www.xyz.org/a.policy or http://www.xyz.org/b.policy? This should be said very clear at the beginning of the P3P specification, not just assumed to be somehow obvious. http://www.xyz.org/a.policy has the advantage that one less rouund-trip is necessary. http://www.xyz.org/b.policy has the advantage that it can deal with pages that contain multiple forms that send data to different servers. If http://www.xyz.org/b.policy is choosen, it may be interesting to consider how to allow to indicate the relevant policy in the html <form> element. Regards, Martin. #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, I18N Activity Lead, World Wide Web Consortium #-#-# mailto:duerst@w3.org http://www.w3.org/People/D%C3%BCrst
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