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Today — while flying to Vegas for BlogWorld — I finally joined the Mile-High club!

Get your mind out of the gutter… I meant the Mile-High Blogger club!

Note: This post was written at 35,000 feet — thanks to in-flight WiFi Internet (brought to you by GoGo.) And I gotta say — Eddie inspired me to write this post, with his Facebook post today:

Those of you that know me, know that I occasionally party (read: drink a lot!!!) And am a big fan of my mini bottles! Take a look at the souvenirs I had after a couple long flights:

But yeah — nowadays the availability of in-flight WiFi is such a priority for me — that I pick routes based on its availability. Today, I’m flying AirTran from Sarasota to Las Vegas. AirTran was one of the first airlines to install GoGo WiFi on their entire fleet. Now, you can find GoGo Internet on the following major carriers:

• AirTran
• AmericanAirlines (some)
• Delta
• United
• Virgin
• AirCanada (coming soon)

And I mean — we’re talking good, crisp Internet — this ain’t no podunk Kentucky dial up shit.

I’m able to stream my favorite YouTube content — notice the progress bar is far ahead:

And the delay isn’t bad either — fast enough to make Internet phone calls (using Skype.) Quality was quite good — even though planes have quite a lot of background noise!

So I figure — might as well combine my 2 favorite past times — in-flight alcohol + Internet together at last… I celebrated with a mile-high video chat toast! Cheers!

Okay — for you normal kids — that’s all I’ve got for today. Techno-dweebs, read on…

The airplane shows up as a Texas IP — I guess it makes sense to be centrally located. Its in the 12.130 block — AirCell space:

I hopped over to speedtest.net and was able to pull 2Mbps down!

That’s faster than my Verizon 3G air card… and good enough for just about anything.

And the best part about it is — you can surf FREE — first time buyers, use discount code AIRTRANTRYGOGO at checkout.

Hmm… and if its not your first time? Simply create a new account — and you can try GoGo free again and again!

Safe travels!

Despite the many advantages of Tracking202 Pro — I get a lot of traffic to my offers from the old self-hosted open source solution — Prosper202 (Which can still be downloaded here http://prosper.tracking202.com/apps/download/)

When using Prosper202 on a separate tracking domain (i.e. different domain from your Landing Pages) — there can be problems setting cookies in IE6 + IE7. Take a look at this thread on WickedFire: http://www.wickedfire.com/newbie-questions/64275-tracking202-cookies-blocked-ie6-ie7.html Still unanswered 3 months later…

I Google’d it to see if anyone else was having issues –http://offermonitor.com/wordpress/?p=447 Yep, people be blogging about it.

There is a somewhat longwinded (and confusing) solution on Propser support forums: http://prosper.tracking202.com/forum/12/21/p3p-privacy-policy-problems-and-solutions

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Basically, we need to add support for some dumbass Internet cookie privacy standard — P3P — check all the criticisms in this Wikipedia reference.

The first thing I did when confronted with this problem was look at how other top affiliate networks set their cookies.

Let’s start with Hydra – I love these guys.
Here’s the P3P header that Hydra sends:

P3P: policyref="/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="NOR DSP COR ADM OUR"

And their P3P policy file (http://lynxtrack.com/w3c/p3p.xml) looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<META xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/12/P3Pv1">
<POLICY-REFERENCES>
<POLICY-REF about="/w3c/policy.xml">
<INCLUDE>/*</INCLUDE>
<COOKIE-INCLUDE>* * * </COOKIE-INCLUDE>
</POLICY-REF>
</POLICY-REFERENCES>
</META>


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Next, lets look at Azoogle — or is it Epic — I dunno
Here’s the header that Azoogle sends:

P3P: policyref="http://azjmp.com/w3c/policy.xml", CP="ALL BUS LEG DSP COR ADM CUR DEV PSA OUR NAV INT"

Their P3P policy file was too long and boring for me to include — linked here: http://azjmp.com/w3c/policy.xml

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CoreMetrics does it differently:
P3P: CP="NON DSP COR CUR ADMo DEVo PSAo PSDo OUR IND ONL UNI PUR COM NAV INT DEM STA"

Not to be outdone – DoubleClick adds:
P3P: policyref="http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/gcn_p3p_.xml", CP="CURa ADMa DEVa TAIo PSAo PSDo OUR IND UNI PUR INT DEM STA PRE COM NAV OTC NOI DSP COR"

Atlas Solutions adds this:
P3P: CP="NOI DSP COR CUR ADM DEV TAIo PSAo PSDo OUR BUS UNI PUR COM NAV INT DEM STA PRE OTC"

AdShuffle looks like this:
P3P: CP="CURa ADMa DEVa PSAo PSDo OUR BUS UNI PUR INT DEM STA PRE COM NAV OTC NOI DSP COR"

Look at MSN
P3P: CP=BUS CUR CONo FINIVDo ONL OUR PHY SAMo TELo

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I started off confused — and looking at other implementations certainly didn’t help!
The more I looked around — the more confused I got…

But if you think about it — these guys ALL know what they’re doing — they can’t be losing conversions — so I’m gonna guess that any of these are gonna work.

I picked Hydra’s implementation because I love those Beverly Hills bastards!

Just install that /w3c/p3p.xml
And add this line right before you setcookie:
header( 'P3P: policyref="/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="NOR DSP COR ADM OUR"' );

Okay thats about it … no more techiness for today.