[ixpmanager] cookies

[Andreas Polyrakis]

Hello Barry,

It is relieving to hear that. Thank you for your prompt reply!!

Regards,


On 19/07/18 16:09, Barry O'Donovan wrote:
> Andreas,
>
> IXP Manager only uses cookies for session management and 
> authentication (there's typically three: a session cookie for each of 
> the older Zend Framework component and the newer Laravel component; 
> and a CSRF-prevention token).
>
> It is my understanding that these types of cookies are exempt from 
> consent according to the EU advisory body on data protection- WP29.
>
> While I am most certainly not a lawyer, this is based on numerous 
> articles and opinions I have read from informed sources - and - more 
> specifically from online information sources written and managed by 
> the European Commission.
>
> In other words: we're good.
>
>  - Barry
>
>
>
> Andreas Polyrakis wrote on 19/07/2018 13:01:
>> Hello,
>>
>> In order to conform with the eu legislation, I believe that we need 
>> to add a cookie notice on our ixpmanager installation. With a quick 
>> search, I did not find a way to do so. That was weird in the first 
>> place, because many eu IXPs use IXPmanager, so I expected that there 
>> would have already been some demand.
>>
>> So my questions:
>> - Do we need/do you have a cookie notice on IXPmanager? (if not, why? 
>> can it be covered by the main IXP site cookie policy...?)
>> - If yes, how do we activate it
>> - What are the cookies used by IXPmanager? I checked my browser and I 
>> only found PHPSESID, which I understand that tracks the logged in 
>> session.
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>>
>
>

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