On 12/8/06, Fenlason, Josh <jfenlason@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Sorry I forgot to mention this is with Apache 2.2.3. Thanks for suggesting the link, but I've already configured that. I can configure Apache to server .de files if the user specifies German language and fall back to .en files if nothing better can be determined. That works fine. The problem is that with IE7 you can't select just de. You have to select de-DE, de-AT, etc. If the client is configured for de-DE, Apache doesn't recognize it because it is only configured for de and it falls back to en. In that case I would prefer it to serve de not fall back to en. I suppose this could be considered a short coming of IE7 because it doesn't allow you to specify a language without a country. (What are the odds they will fix that though? :)) I know I can configure Apache to serve de files when the user specifies de-DE. However that wouldn't serve de files when the user specifies de-AT. It would be nice if there was a way to configure Apache to serve de files when the user specifies any variation of de. Is that possible with the type-map files? Or am I out of luck? Thanks.
Although I haven't tried it, I am fairly sure that IE7 does allow you to select proper language codes. Try typing them in rather than selecting from the list. I just did a quick google, and found this: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/10/17/accept-language-header-for-internet-explorer-7.aspx which, unfortunately, displays a stunning ignorance of the HTTP standard by specifically counseling server-authors to violate the standard. It is very clearly stated in the standard that servers are not allowed to "simply truncat(e) the code at the first dash". See, in particular the comment at the bottom from Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis for a full explanation. You should file a bug report with Microsoft, because that decision really sucks. Back to your question, yes I believe that type-maps can be used to map one resource onto many different language codes, thereby catching the different language subsets. But I've never tried it. If you get it to work, be sure to report back. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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