Content negotiation problem - returning the default variant

[Milan Trninic <mt...@galdosinc.com>]

Hi,

I have two resources: index.html.en and index.html.fr.
If client hasn't configured the language (doesn't send Accept header) the server returns the default variant which is english. 
If a client is configured to read for example, German only,  then server returns "Not Acceptable" error. How can I make it return the default? The only way I have found is to make a copy of index.html.en and to name it index.html. But I don't want to maintain two identical files.
Anyone has a suggestion?
Thank you

Milan Trninic

Re: Content negotiation problem - returning the default variant

[Game Wizard <gw...@netvision.net.il>]

use symvolic links for not maintaining two identical files.

for example 

ln -s index.html index.html.en

GW.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Milan Trninic 
  To: users@httpd.apache.org 
  Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 5:01 PM
  Subject: Content negotiation problem - returning the default variant


  Hi,

  I have two resources: index.html.en and index.html.fr.
  If client hasn't configured the language (doesn't send Accept header) the server returns the default variant which is english. 
  If a client is configured to read for example, German only,  then server returns "Not Acceptable" error. How can I make it return the default? The only way I have found is to make a copy of index.html.en and to name it index.html. But I don't want to maintain two identical files.
  Anyone has a suggestion?
  Thank you

  Milan Trninic

RE: Content negotiation problem - returning the default variant

[Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>]

> From: Milan Trninic [mailto:mtrninic@galdosinc.com]

> If a client is configured to read for example, German only,
> then server returns "Not Acceptable" error. How can I make it
> return the default?

Ahhh, the eternal problem....

In 2.0 there is the new ForceLanguagePriority directive:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_negotiation#forcelanguagepriority

In 1.3, you have found the only solution (a duplicate file without a
language tag).  See http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/lang-neg.html
for a good discussion of the issue.  You can avoid maintaining duplicate
files by using symbolic links or server side includes to generate the
duplicate files.

Joshua.


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