tedd wrote:
> At 12:56 AM +0100 11/28/07, Jochem Maas wrote:
>> Colin Guthrie wrote:
>>>  tedd wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>>  >
>>  > Sorry Tedd, but I'm not sure where the browser sniffing stuff came in.
>>>  IE and FF both offer a UI to input the user's preferred language, it's
>>>  an HTTP standard thing and nothign to do with user agents string
>>>  parsing. It uses the Accept-Language header sent with http requests to
>>>  detect the language. It's quite standard but problems usually crop
>>> up in
>>>  e.g. Australia and the UK where a lot of people leave the default en-US
>>>  language when en-GB or en-AU would be better. Again it's not infallible
>>>  but it's a fairly good starting point.
>>
>> ditto.
> 
> So, sniffing the browser to determine language isn't the same as browser
> sniffing -- OK.
> 
> Sorry, my bad.

lol. If you define this as "sniffing" tedd, then I by that token you'd
have to define the "GET / HTTP/1.1 \n Host: www.mysite.com" bit as
sniffing too ;)

Col

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