OK, thanks for the clarification. Martin On 15.07.16 14:46, Marat Khalili wrote: > According to RFC 2616 > <https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html>: >> Note: This use of a prefix matching rule does not imply that >> language tags are assigned to languages in such a way that it is >> always true that if a user understands a language with a certain >> tag, then this user will also understand all languages with tags >> for which this tag is a prefix. The prefix rule simply allows the >> use of prefix tags if this is the case. > Thus the server must not simply return "de" version in response to > "de-DE" request from the client. The browser is probably in error in not > stating that "de" version is acceptable (likewise for "en"). > > -- > > With Best Regards, > Marat Khalili > > On 15/07/16 14:31, Martin Reinders wrote: >> Im am using content negotiation to present different HTML pages >> depending on the browsers language preference. This works in general, >> but not with language "subtags", e.g. if the preferred language is sent >> as "de-DE" only. >> >> Here is my setup (reduced to two languages for simplicity): >> ---------------------------------------------- >> // .htaccess: >> AddHandler type-map var >> DirectoryIndex index.var >> LanguagePriority en de >> ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback >> >> // index.var: >> URI: index >> >> URI: index.en.html >> Content-type: text/html >> Content-language: en >> >> URI: index.de.html >> Content-type: text/html >> Content-language: de >> >> // index.en.html: English index page >> // index.de.html: German index page >> ---------------------------------------------- >> >> This works as expected when the client sends the preferred language as >> >> Accept-Language: de,en;q=0.8 >> >> and "index.de.html" is returned from the Apache server. But with >> >> Accept-Language: de-DE,en-US;q=0.8 >> >> the server returns "index.en.html", so apparently "de-DE" does not match >> "de" when the language is negotiated. >> >> Do I really have to add all possible combinations in "index.var", such >> as "de, de-DE, de-CH, de-AT" for German? Or is there at way to specify >> "match this language with any language subtags"? My naive approach >> "de-*" did not work. >> >> Or is it a bug in the HTTP client (in my case: Android WebView) if it >> sends only "de-DE" in the Accept-Language header, without a plain "de"? >> >> Thanks for any help, >> Martin >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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