W3C P3P Validator
Integrated Validation
Policy File Validation
Changes and known bugs:
- 2002/12/01 [Bug & Fix 20] In the "Vocabulary check" step, even when there are errors, the validator says "no error".
- 2002/11/04 [Bug & Fix 19] The validator does not check the expiration date of the P3P policy. Now it is fixed.
- 2002/08/27 [Bug 18] When the policy file is on the SSL site, the validator thinks the policy file does not exist. Now it is fixed.
- 2002/08/27 [Bug & Fix 17] The parameter of the header.pl is not correctly escaped. Now it is fixed.
- 2002/06/18 [Bug 16] If the policy reference file contains non-XML code, the validator fails to parse the PRF, and stops without any error messages.
- 2002/06/03 [Bug & Fix 15] In the HTTP response header, the policy ref directive (= policyref="/w3c/pref.xml") and the compact policy (= CP="NOI IND ..") must be seperated with a comma character. The validator does not report an error, when a comma is missing. Now it is fixed .
- 2002/05/16 [Bug & Fix 14] When a compact policy includes NID element, the compact policy does not have to include compact-purpose / compact-retention / compact-recipient / compact-category tokens. However, the validator requires them. Now it is fixed.
- 2002/04/09 [Bug&Fix 13] Validator did not recognize the compact policy LOC category. Now, it is fixed.
- 2002/03/26 [Bug&Fix 12] When the target URI includes some special characters, the validator failed. Now it is fixed.
- 2002/03/22 [Bug&Fix 11] URI patterns of the INCLUDE and EXCLUDE elements in the PRF were relative to the PRF URI. Now, they are relative to the target URI (See section 2.3.2.5 of the spec for the details ).
- 2002/03/20 [Bug&Fix 10] HTTPS related bug. When PRF is https and the policy is http, the validator misunderstands that they are on the different web sites. Now it is fixed.
- 2002/03/20 [Bug&Fix 09] Link check sequence does not work correctly, when the user uploads the P3P policy file. Now it is fixed.
- 2002/03/20 [Bug 08] If user defined DATASCHEMA uses DATA-STRUCT element in the base data schema file, the validator does not correctly recognize it.
- 2002/03/20 [Bug&Fix 07] The validator did not recognize DATASCHEMA embedded in the policy file, when the user upload the policy file. Now, fixed.
- 2002/03/14 [Fix 06] Now, the validator supports https.
- 2002/02/21 [Limitation 06] The validator does not support https protocol at this point. It will be supported soon.
- 2002/02/21 [Bug&Fix 05] "<link> element multiple line" bug fixed.
- 2002/02/20 [Bug&Fix 04] "dot dot slash" bug fixed. Now, the validator recognizes that [http://example.com/../abc/cde] is equivalent to [http://example.com/abc/cde].
- 2002/02/19 [Bug&Fix 03] "<POLICY> element" bug fixed. Now, the validator does not allows policy files starting with <POLICY> element.
- 2002/02/19 [Fix 01] "http-equiv header" bug fixed.
- 2002/02/18 [Bug&Fix 02] "Single quote bug" fixed. The values of policyref and CP in the P3P: http header must be quoted with double quotation marks ("). The validator allowed single quotation marks illegally.
- 2002/02/14 [Bug 01] The validator recognizes http-equiv headers in HTML documents. This is not a bug. However, almost all HTML user agents do not recognize http-equiv headers. Therefore, I will make the validator not to recognize them. Details about this issue is here.
- 2002/01/28 [Info] The validator is compatible with the P3P PR (proposed recommendation) spec.
Notice:
Version 0.95, Created by:
Yuichi Koike and Shojima Taiki, Jan 29 2002
