P3P, cookies...

[bebarrett]

A site I made 6 years ago that uses cookies for a shopping cart has never worked in IE6, even when set to "accept all cookies." When I made the site there was no need for a P3P policy. Surpisingly, information on it is hard to find (at least understandable info) even years after IE6 became a dominant browser

Recently I created a Compact Policy, (from http://www.privacycouncil.com ) and, hopefully, have placed it in the Headers correctly... but I am now to make an XML policy statement as well? Some say I don't need it, others say it's required, but then show overly-complex examples (I don't know XML... not that well at least) if they show an example at all.

It's funny that it seems like only IE6 supports P3P, and requires it from sites even if the user overrides. That is, unless It's something else causing the cookies not to work only in IE6. My site only uses 1st-Party cookies to create a shopping cart that expire after the session. On the server-side: keeps shipping, but not billing information, and user can opt out at any time.

I also can't find a P3P feature on a mac browser.

Any help would be appreciated.