P3P and Konqueror

[Ralf Hoelzer]

Hi everyone,

I am planning on working on the P3P implementation for Konqueror in the next 
few months. I am currently taking a class taught by Lorrie Cranor, she was 
the chair of the W3C P3P working group and wrote the AT&T privacy bird, so I 
have a place to go if I have questions :). I could spend some time on it as a 
class project. But there are still a few issues, and I would like to hear 
your opinions:

- George Staikos started an implementation a while ago, but gave it up because 
there was no working XPath implementation in KDE at that time. Did that 
change?

- It would be nice not having to write everything from scratch, but the AT&T 
privacy bird is licensed under the AT&T public license, so I don't think we 
can use any of the code.

- George suggested implementing it as a KHTML plugin. Are there other good 
options? It would be nice to make it work with any rendering engine in 
Konqueror, in case Gecko really becomes an option.

I don't think it makes sense to implement the whole privacy bird right now. I 
would like to focus on a simple warning mechanism and maybe basic cookie 
handling based on the P3P policy. Anyone who wants to help out is very 
welcome, this will be a lot of work :).

regards,

Ralf