- From: William A. Rowe, Jr. <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
- Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:24:27 -0500
- To: Frank Ellermann <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com>
- CC: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Frank Ellermann wrote: > > The <qvalue>s are supposed to mean something. In the case > of Accept-Language: en,de,frr;q=0.1,frs;q=0.1 I'd guess > (and implement) that this means "user wants 'en' or 'de', > if both are unavailable frr or frs". If 'en' *and* 'de' > are available toss a coin, or take always the first / last, > the user doesn't care. Actually, not quite flip-a-coin; the server can (and in the case of httpd, it will) order preferences according to it's own qvalue list. So in this case of en == de, where the document was composed in German and translated into english, the website author can reasonably attempt to serve an original document rather than a translation.
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