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P3P

Privacy & Consent obsoleted

A reference entry. The registry facts and catalog measurements below are complete; the written guidance for this header has not been authored yet.

The P3P HTTP header — privacy & consent, not observed in the catalog.

P3P is privacy & consent — Headers carrying a person’s preference or a legal consent artifact. The smallest category in the catalog by adoption and the largest by regulatory consequence.

The registry

Listed in the IANA HTTP Field Name Registry as marked obsoleted in the registry — it should not appear in new work. Defined in The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification.

In the catalog

Registered with IANA and declared by not one of the 26,641 providers in the API Evangelist catalog. A registered field with no observed use is still part of the vocabulary — it just is not part of the practice.

Governed by these rules

Machine-enforceable governance rules from rules.apievangelist.com that apply to this header when it appears in an OpenAPI.

OpenAPI Components Headers Error error

Utilizing the headers object in the centralized OpenAPI components library helps make headers reusable across API requests and responses

Guidance: Rate Limits →
OpenAPI Components Headers Info info

Utilizing the headers object in the centralized OpenAPI components library helps make headers reusable across API requests and responses

Guidance: Rate Limits →
OpenAPI Headers Hyphenated Pascal Case error

HTTP headers should follow Hyphenated-Pascal-Case naming convention for consistency and readability, such as Content-Type, X-Request-Id, or Accept-Language.

Guidance: Naming →