MSIEPrivacySettings element

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08/15/2017

Important This feature has been removed from Windows 10 and only minimally supported on previous versions of Windows. See "P3P is no longer supported" for more info.

*Obsolete.*Specifies cookie actions as a function of security zone, Web page context (first-party versus third-party), type (session cookie versus persistent cookie), and the content of a cookie's Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) compact policy. It also specifies what to do with existing cookies and privacy settings when loading custom settings.

Usage

<MSIEPrivacySettings
  formatVersion = "version">
  child elements
</MSIEPrivacySettings>

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
formatVersion	version	Yes	Version number of Internet Explorer that these settings apply to.

Child elements

Element
alwaysReplayLegacy
flushCookies
flushSiteList
p3pCookiePolicy

Child element sequence

alwaysReplayLegacyflushCookiesflushSiteListp3pCookiePolicy

Parent elements

Element
MSIEPrivacy

Remarks

Note For Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, the MSIESiteRules must be set to 6 and not 6.0.

Examples

The following example shows the syntax for this element.

<MSIEPrivacySettings formatVersion="6">
<p3pCookiePolicy zone="internet">
<firstParty noPolicyDefault="reject" noRuleDefault="accept" alwaysAllowSession="yes">
      <if expr="TEL" action="reject"/>
      <if expr="FIN,CON" action="forceSession"/>
      <if expr="GOV,PUB" action="forceSession"/>
</firstParty>
<thirdParty noPolicyDefault="accept" noRuleDefault="accept" alwaysAllowSession="yes">
</thirdParty>
</p3pCookiePolicy>
<alwaysReplayLegacy/>
</MSIEPrivacySettings>

Element information

Minimum supported system	Windows XP
Can be empty	No

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