Compact Policy Definitions

Compact Policy - a performance optimization that is delivered in the header of the web page. It contains tokens representing P3P policy elements. The P3P compact policy header has a quoted string that may contain one or more space delimited tokens.

HTTP Header - In addition to a server sending HTML to a browser, it sends other program information that is not displayed. One of these objects is called the HTTP header that can contain information about the content that is being delivered to the browser. The header can be programmed by configuring the server or by a programming language such as perl, php and asp.

Token - An abbreviation that represents a much larger word. The token is used in programming to reduce the size of the program. For example, nonidentifiable could be represented by the token NID.