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Re: Content Sniffing impact on HTTPbis - #155

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:39:17 +0200
Message-ID: <4A34A925.7030007@gmx.de>
To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Ian Hickson wrote:
>> (BTW, can you point me to a site that actually does that with Accept- 
>> Languge? Or any HTTP con neg for that matter. I've never been able to find 
>> any site that does con neg other than demos, experiments, and user agent 
>> tests. I'd love to actually test how browsers do this in real-world 
>> situations rather than in controlled experiments.)
> 
> I normally point people to <http://www.debian.org/intro/cn>; searching
> old Usenet articles to see for how long I've been doing that I found
> <news:8dvqfs$8a2vr$1@fu-berlin.de>, which reports, in April 2000, that
> <http://www.google.com/> recently started delivering different content
> based on the Accept-Language header. I've checked, and it still does.

Oh well :-)

I even didn't bother to check www.google.com, as I assumed that Ian did.

BR, Julian
Received on Sunday, 14 June 2009 07:40:02 UTC

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