Daniel Aleksandersen wrote:
On 2008-03-11, Dragon wrote:Daniel Aleksandersen wrote:Hi, I need some help to think clearer. To copy the example used on “Making readable URIs†at W3C: “A Norwegian without knowledge of basic English would like to be able to remember "www.site.com/fiske/stenger" instead of "www.site.com/fishing/rods".†What I am wondering about is how I would go about rewriting the URIs in Apache to allow for content negotiation at these two URIs. If a Norwegian requests ‘www.site.com/fishing/rods’, he should get redirected to the Norwegian URI and served the Norwegian document. Say the location of the two versions is "/fishingrods.html.en and fishingrods.html.nb.---------------- End original message. --------------------- But what if a person with a non-English language preference actually wants to view the English version?Then the user would click the link to get a cookie that would override the transparent content negotiation process. The idea of content negotiation is to suggest the best possible version automatically.
See the httpd 2.2 conf/extra/httpd-manual.conf for how this is rewritten to be in a specific language-space. (en/index.html vs no/index.html) Now, if you want 12 different 'file names' for the same document, they really can't be negotiated using conventional accept semantics because foo.html(.en) ~= foo.html(.no) while foo.html(.en) is entirely unrelated (in a uri-sense) to bar.html(.no). You can do it - I suggest rewrite map db's, but you'll be at this a while, and likely create yourself a maintenance headache. Bill Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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