Re: Firefox ignores language settings

From: 國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar) (survivor_at_brisnet.org)
Date: 10/06/05

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    Yep. That was why I suggested accessing the web page directly rather
    than change the settings.

    Which state are U in now?

    Tim wrote:

    >If you used a URI ending .html.de (like the above), you will get that
    >page directly, bypassing any language negotiation that the server might
    >have offered. Alternatively, if the URI was shortened to not include
    >the country, e.g. <http://www2.uibk.ac.at/fakultaeten/index.html>, then
    >the server is free to negotiate which language variant it serves you, if
    >they exist.
    >
    >e.g. It might have index.html.de index.html.en index.html.fr
    >
    >And you'd get the best match served to you *as* "index.html".
    >
    >This might be where de-de was falling down - the server looking for
    >something specific, with no obviously equivalent alternative (to it).
    >
    >Different servers have different negotiation abilities, too. My site
    >suffers because the host still uses Apache 1.3.x. Anybody visiting
    >without their browser configured to accept English, amongst any other
    >languages, gets a 406 error, rather than my English pages anyway.
    >Apache 2 can avoid that annoying problem, by letting the webmaster
    >configure a fallback.
    >
    >(I use content negotiation for a different purpose than language
    >negotiation.)
    > 

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