ASP PICSProperty
Complete Response Object Reference Manual
The PICS property appends a value to the PICS tag in the response header.
Note:This property accepts any string value, whether it is a valid PICS tag or not.
What is PICS?
PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection) is a rating system used to rate content on websites. It looks something like this:
PICS-1.1 "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" by "[email protected]" for "http://www.somesite.com" on "2002.10.05T02:15-0800" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0)
| Part | Description |
|---|---|
| PICS-1.1 | PICS version number |
| "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" | Rating organization |
| by "[email protected]" | Author of the tag |
| for "http://www.somesite.com" | URL of the rated document |
| on "2002.10.05T02:15-0800" | Expiration date |
| r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0) | Ratings |
One of the most popular rating systems is RSACi (Recreational Software Advisory Council on the Internet). RSACi uses four categories: violence, nudity, sex, and language. Numbers from 0 to 4 are assigned to each of these four categories. 0 means the page contains no offensive content, and 4 indicates the highest level of potentially offensive content.
| Level | Violence rating | Nudity rating | Sex rating | Language rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | None of the below or sports related | None of the below | None of the below or innocent kissing; romance | None of the below |
| 1 | Injury to human being | Revealing attire | Passionate kissing | Mild expletives |
| 2 | Destruction of realistic objects | Partial nudity | Clothed sexual touching | Moderate expletives or profanity |
| 3 | Aggressive violence or death to humans | Frontal nudity | Non-explicit sexual acts | Strong language or hate speech |
| 4 | Rape or wanton, gratuitous violence | Frontal nudity (qualifying as provocative display) | Explicit sexual acts or sex crimes | Crude, vulgar language or extreme hate speech |
There are two ways to get a rating for your website. You can rate the website yourself, or use a rating provider such as RSACi. They will ask you to answer some questions. After completing them, you will receive a rating label for your website.
Microsoft IE 3.0 and later, and Netscape 4.5 and later, support content rating. In IE 5, you can set the rating by selecting Internet Options from the Tools menu. Select the Content tab, and then click Enable. When the rating exceeds the defined level, Content Advisor will block the website. In Netscape 4.7, you can set ratings by selecting Help and NetWatch.
We can use META tags or the response.PICS property to add ratings to a website.
Syntax
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| picslabel | A well-formed PICS tag. |
Examples
The ASP file contains the following code:Note:Because the PICS tag contains quotation marks, you must replace the quotation marks with " & chr(34) & ".
response.PICS("(PICS-1.1 <http://www.rsac.org/ratingv01.html>
by " & chr(34) & "[email protected]" & chr(34) &
" for " & chr(34) & "http://www.somesite.com" & chr(34) &
" on " & chr(34) & "2002.10.05T02:15-0800" & chr(34) &
" r (n 2 s 0 v 1 l 2))")
%>
The added header:
by "[email protected]"
for "http://www.somesite.com"
on "2002.10.05T02:15-0800"
r (n 2 s 0 v 1 l 2))
Complete Response Object Reference Manual Other Extensions