In order to use type-maps to server de* with .de file do I have to spell out all the de-<country> variations in the Content-language directive? Or is there a way to do this more dynamically? Thanks. , Josh. > -----Original Message----- > From: Fenlason, Josh > Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:18 AM > To: 'users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' > Subject: RE: Multiviews Problem > > You're correct. I can manually type in just the language > code. I'm not sure I'll be able to require our customers to > do that, but thanks for the suggestion. > I haven't read the spec myself. According to the spec the > server isn't supposed to be allowed to fall back to the > language if it doesn't have content specific for the language > and country. Is that right? That would seem less than ideal > to me, but I'm sure those who wrote the spec are smarter than > myself. If that's what it says, then shame on MS for going > out of their way to blatantly disobey it. > I've had some trouble when I was trying type-maps, but I'll > play around some more since I think I understand things a > little better. Thanks for the help. > , > Josh. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: jslive@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:jslive@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf > Of Joshua > > Slive > > Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:00 AM > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: Multiviews Problem > > > > 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-he > > ader-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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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