ASP.NET in a Nutshell

Name

Pics

Synopsis

Response.Pics(ByVal value As String)

Adds a PICS-Label header to the output stream for the current response. The Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) is used to rate Internet content based on violence, sexual content, language, and nudity.

Parameters

value

A String argument containing the text for the PICS-Label header.

Example

The following example sets a PICS header that specifies RSAC as the rating organization, sets the rating effective period from 8/1/2001 to 2/28/2002, and sets the ratings as follows:

• Violence - 1

• Sexual content - 2

• Adult Language - 3

• Nudity - 4

Sub Page_Load(  )
   Dim PICSLabel As String
   PICSLabel &= "(PICS-1.1 <http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html> "
   PICSLabel &= "labels on " & Chr(34)
   PICSLabel &= "2001.08.01T06:00-0000" & Chr(34)
   PICSLabel &= " until " & Chr(34)
   PICSLabel &= "2002.02.28T23:59-0000" & Chr(34)
   PICSLabel &= " ratings (V 1 S 2 L 3 N 4))"
   Response.PICS(PICSLabel)
   Message.Text = PICSLabel
End Sub

Notes

The PICS-Label header is used for rating the content of a site. Users can configure their browsers to disallow viewing of sites that send PICS-Label headers, and whose ratings state that the site contains a higher level of content in one of the rated categories than the browser is configured to allow. Additional information on the PICS standard for content ratings is available at the World Wide Web Consortium web site at http://www.w3c.org.