Re: www.uk.debian.org - default language isn't English . .
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:15:10AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Did you check out <http://www.debian.org/intro/cn>?
> >
> > Maybe directly use <http://www.debian.org/intro/cn.en.html>
>
> Well, I noticed this also already... And I think there might be a bug
> within apache - at least it doesn't seem to be an intuitive behavior.
>
> When the browser sends not Accept-Language header everything is fine -
> the DefaultLanguage directive is used. But then it comes to browsers
> that do send a Accept-Language: * header. Although it's perfectly
> acceptable that apache sends any page which seems to be in no special
> order (maybe alphabetical?), it would be much better that it would use
> the DefaultLanguage header here, too. Shall I file a bugreport against
> apache about this, and especially which priority shall it have?
>
The behavior of 'Accept-Language: *' is not defined so a browser that
sends it is broken and whatever apache does is technically correct.
I agree that apache does not do the Right Thing and filed a bug
upstream around 2 years ago.
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James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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