On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 06:36:51PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: [Apache 2] > But what real benefits do you see in using it?
Primarily WRT language negotiation: ForceLanguagePriority can be used to avoid "406 Not Acceptable" errors for users with badly configured browsers (e.g. no English in the browser list). "Not Acceptable" is a bit of a problem as users might interpret it as "You have done something bad". (Incidentally, this 406 problem can also prevent Google from indexing a site. However, this is mostly a problem for PHP+MultiViews+Apache1, see <http://tranchant.plus.com/notes/multiviews>.) Additionally, Apache 2 contains an (IMHO) important fix for the issue of e.g. "es" vs "es-ar": In the case that a user only has "es-ar" (Spanish as spoken in Argentina) in his preferences, Apache 1 will *not* serve the "es" (Spanish) version of the page, but give a 406. Apache 2 will serve the "es" version. This type of misconfiguration is very common. The browsers are the ones not behaving according to spec, they should automatically add the non-country-specific version of the language. *sigh* Finally, Apache 2 allows you to do language negotiation via cookies. This means that our language selection links at the bottom of each page could be made to permanently select the language: After clicking on such a link, a user can navigate on to further pages and still see the content in the language he selected earlier, without reconfiguring the browser. Config sample: <http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38892> Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: 888354F7 | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 08A9 7B7D 3D13 3EF2 3D25 D157 79E6 F6DC 8883 54F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
