On 5/2/05, Rici Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1-May-05, at 7:04 PM, Jeff Trawick wrote: > > > I found a description of the problem: > > > >> When Apache issues a redirect in response to a client request, the > >> response > >> includes some actual text to be displayed in case the client can't > >> (or doesn't) > >> automatically follow the redirection. Apache ordinarily labels this > >> text according > >> to the character set which it uses, which is ISO-8859-1. > >> > >> However, if the redirection is to a page that uses a different > >> character set, some > >> broken browser versions will try to use the character set from the > >> redirection text > >> rather than the actual page. This can result in Greek, for instance, > >> being > >> incorrectly rendered. > > If the action is required to compensate for a browser bug, wouldn't it > be better to leave it as an environment variable and set it with > BrowserMatch?
You're absolutely right. I put the blinders on to environment variables when I saw that mod_env didn't do anything until the fixup hook, which is too late for processing of Redirect directives. But mod_setenvif does its work sooner and is the proper solution. Thanks!
