On 2008-03-11, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > 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. So what is really the best practise? I thought of content negotiation as trying to always serve the most appropriate version for all URIs, if not especially told otherwise (by a direct link or cookie override). Should I only use language focused content negotiation on the welcome page/the index? -- Daniel Aleksandersen --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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