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Bug#157734: marked as done (request to support a wee bit of guesswork in content negotiation)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #157734,
regarding request to support a wee bit of guesswork in content negotiation
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Package: apache
Severity: wishlist
Version: 1.3.*

Hi,

When a user requests en-us, en-gb, en-au, en-ca or some other variant of en,
and Apache can't find a file in that variant of English, it doesn't try
simply en, but continues parsing the Accept-Language list.

For example:

% wget -q http://www.debian.org/ --header="Accept-Language: en-ca, fr" -O - | grep Language
<meta name="Language" content="French">

Despite the fact that:

% wget -q http://www.debian.org/ --header="Accept-Language: en, fr" -O - | grep Language
<meta name="Language" content="English">

In case the fallback (default) language of the server isn't up to the user's
liking, they will get an unknown language, and most of them won't realize
that their language preferences in the browser are at fault, that is, that
"English (<something>)" is not equal to "English (<any>)".

For the use in the Debian web pages (and 18 mirrors, a lot of which have
various default languages set up), we would really be grateful if a new
option could be added to Apache to make the daemon try the generic form of
the language first. Being able to restrict this behaviour to e.g. en-* would
be useful, too.

TIA.

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Version: 1.3.34-4.1+rm

You filled the bug http://bugs.debian.org/157734 in Debian BTS
against the package apache. I'm closing it at *unstable*, but it will
remain open for older distributions.

For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/418266. That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed and suggestions of possible replacements.

Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.

Thank you for your contribution to Debian.

--
Marco Rodrigues

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