- From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 16:38:54 +0100
- To: (wrong string) ürst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- CC: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>, "'Judith Slein'" <slein@wrc.xerox.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Martin J. Dürst wrote: > That these two things (the properties as expressed in response > headers and the accept headers) can be separated is very nicely > show in the Apache implementation of negotiation. Apache first > uses a very simple naming scheme convention to find all possible > variants. It then calculates, for each variant, what the > Content-language (and other) headers would look like, by using > subrequest. The negotiation logic together with the Accept headers > then decides which variant to serve. This is one way Apache handles variants. It is also possible to use a "type-map" file to manually configure the variants. Cheers, Ben. -- Ben Laurie |Phone: +44 (181) 994 6435|Apache Group member Freelance Consultant |Fax: +44 (181) 994 6472|http://www.apache.org and Technical Director|Email: ben@algroup.co.uk |Apache-SSL author A.L. Digital Ltd, |http://www.algroup.co.uk/Apache-SSL London, England. |"Apache: TDG" http://www.ora.com/catalog/apache
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