Hello Octavian, Monday, September 9, 2002, 4:39:26 AM, you wrote:
OR> I am wondering how Google and Altavista search engines can find out the OR> language used in a web page. OR> I can see that they can find the pages written in Romanian language, for OR> example, even though the header of the file is same as for english ones. OR> Do they search for some words? OR> If you think this could be the only solution, is there any Perl module OR> thatcan do that? They can use the 'Content-Language' in the server's reply header. I.e. the browser says 'accept-languages: ru en' in the request, then the server tries to find the document in russian, then in english, then in server's default language which can be zulu. A sort of magic :) WBW, dk [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]