- From: Mob Psychologist <faithz@sco.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 11:38:32 -0800 (PST)
- To: batie@aahz.jf.intel.com, mau@beatles.cselt.stet.it
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
% Content Negotiation goes beyond browser type, but user type as well. For % example, I would add this issue: % % 4. I want to send French pages to French speaking users, German, etc... Accept-Language: seems to me the best way to accomplish it. My personal idea is to modify slightly a server, so that the resource /foo/bar.html actually can correspond to either /foo/DE/bar.html or /foo/FR/bar.html ... I understand that URC (or URN?) should be the right approach, but this could be implemented in a hurry, provided that browsers optionally send the correct header. Any comments? .mau. This is exactly how we have implemented multiple language support. The Accept-Language sends the LANG environment variable of the user, and the server uses a new configuration directive, LocalizedDocRoot, to map the language to a different document root directory. We actually use a language subdirectory of the original document root, to keep all the documents together. We also have another configuration directive, LanguageAlias, that aliases different ways of specifying locales. ---------- Faith Zack The Santa Cruz Operation email: faithz@sco.com phone: (408) 427-7611
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