From: "Rodent of Unusual Size" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:56 AM
> "William A. Rowe, Jr." wrote: > > > > To be RFC compliant we must start by fixing today's wrong behavior. > > > > User accepts .en and .fr at q=.5, server chooses one > > [WRONG: MULTIPLE_CHOICES should be presented!!!] > > Both of those are at q=0.5, or only .fr? At eqivilant quality. Were they different, the higher value would win. > > User accepts no specified, we serve none [Also wrong, > > also MULTIPLE_CHOICES should be the default behavior!!!] > > Unclear. What about a request for foo.html, with no > Accept-Language field but with 'Accept: text.html', > and files foo.html.en, foo.html.fr, and foo.html.html? > Are you suggesting we should send a 300 for that instead > of foo.html.html? Forget foo.html.html, we hope to do away with that this time around. Presuming no other factors, two languages available, and _no_ stated accept, we should present MULTIPLE_CHOICES as in the case above. All this is overridden at the administrator's discression. I'm just pointing out where we went wrong; it confused the issue when coding this patch to start from the wrong point. Bill
