Content negotiation for Turtle files

Hello all

Back in 2006, I thought had understood with the help of folks around here,
how to configure my server for content negotiation at lingvoj.org.
Both vocabulary and instances were published in RDF/XML.

I updated the ontology last week, and since after years of happy living
with RDF/XML people eventually convinced that it was a bad, prehistoric and
ugly syntax, I decided to be trendy and published the new version in Turtle
at http://www.lingvoj.org/ontology_v2.0.ttl

The vocabulary URI is still the same : http://www.lingvoj.org/ontology, and
the namespace  http://www.lingvoj.org/ontology# (cool URI don't change)

Then I turned to Vapour to test this new publication, and found out that to
be happy with the vocabulary URI it has to find some answer when requesting
application/rdf+xml. But since I have no more RDF/XML file for this
version, what should I do?
I turned to best practices document at http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-vocab-pub,
but it does not provide examples with Turtle, only RDF/XML.

So I blindly put the following in the .htaccess : AddType
application/rdf+xml .ttl
I found it a completely stupid and dirty trick ... but amazigly it makes
Vapour happy.

But now Firefox chokes on http://www.lingvoj.org/ontology_v2.0.ttl because
it seems to expect a XML file. Chrome has not this issue.
The LOV-Bot says there is a content negotiation issue and can't get the
file. So does Parrot.

I feel dumb, but I'm certainly not the only one, I've stumbled upon a
certain number of vocabularies published in Turtle for which the conneg
does not seem to be perfectly clear either.

What do I miss, folks? Should I forget about it, and switch back to good
ol' RDF/XML?

Bernard

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