- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:41:22 +0100
- To: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
- CC: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 2011-11-23 23:29, Amos Jeffries wrote: > ... > I've been keeping an eye on this since implementing language negotiation > in Squid. > > It appears that nearly all agents are sending the language codes sorted > by q value anyway. Whether they send the q value or not it is still > possible to optimize by using the left-most wins assumption. > > If anyone is interested in doing a deeper analysis I have a dataset > available covering the last year on several networks linking the > Accept-Language and User-Agent header pair. > ... Analysis would be good. I'm skeptical because we're not really allowed to make changes breaking previously compliant implementations without *very* good reasons. I'm also not too enthusiastic having to consider whether this would be *specific* to Accept-Language, or apply to all Accept headers. Best regards, Julian
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