Re: squid ignores Language: header but shouldn't

> From: list-squid@news.cistron.nl [SMTP:list-squid@news.cistron.nl]
>
> Currently when my flatmate downloads www.debian.de with Language=de
> and afterwards I take a look at the same page with Language=en I
> always end up reading the German page.
>
        There is no such thing as a Language header, at least to
        draft 05 of the HTTP 1.1 specification. There is an
        Accept-Language header, but any browser ought to send
        this even if the site doesn't do content negotiation, so
        it's presence cannot be used as a caching inhibitor.

        As Henry implies, if the server does not generate a
        Vary header, it is the server that is broken.

        I'd also agree that it should be done as a redirect, so
        the actual page is fetched without any negotiation, but
        it may be difficult to prevent the server short-circuiting
        the redirect for a local page.
Received on Thu May 27 1999 - 05:41:43 MDT