- From: Werner Baumann <werner.baumann@onlinehome.de>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:26:20 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Am Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:36:56 +0000 (UTC) schrieb Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>: > > Thanks to everyone for the various examples of pages that do content > negotiation. > Now its going to get cynical, so I must join. Please enter "telnet www.debian.org 80" at your command line and after the connection is established enter either GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.debian.org Accept-Language: de or GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.debian.org Accept-Language: en The bags of bits will look quite different. Indeed they represent the same content in different languages. I must admit this example is a bit unfair on my side, because Debian lacks everything that is important in WWW today (no advertising, no data mining, no cross-side-whatsoever, no active content trying to conquer your computer, just information). Werner P.S.: As far as I can remember there has been a lengthy discussion about this terminolgy about halve a year ago. It ended in removing the unnecessary term "variant".
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