Firefox ignores language settings
"國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar)"
survivor at brisnet.org
Thu Oct 6 15:32:54 UTC 2005
Yep. That was why I suggested accessing the web page directly rather
than change the settings.
Which state are U in now?
Tim wrote:
>If you used a URI ending .html.de (like the above), you will get that
>page directly, bypassing any language negotiation that the server might
>have offered. Alternatively, if the URI was shortened to not include
>the country, e.g. <http://www2.uibk.ac.at/fakultaeten/index.html>, then
>the server is free to negotiate which language variant it serves you, if
>they exist.
>
>e.g. It might have index.html.de index.html.en index.html.fr
>
>And you'd get the best match served to you *as* "index.html".
>
>This might be where de-de was falling down - the server looking for
>something specific, with no obviously equivalent alternative (to it).
>
>Different servers have different negotiation abilities, too. My site
>suffers because the host still uses Apache 1.3.x. Anybody visiting
>without their browser configured to accept English, amongst any other
>languages, gets a 406 error, rather than my English pages anyway.
>Apache 2 can avoid that annoying problem, by letting the webmaster
>configure a fallback.
>
>(I use content negotiation for a different purpose than language
>negotiation.)
>
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