On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:24:15 -0700 Darin Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2. Add a proper Accept-Language header when creating an
NSURLRequest, thus overriding the default. Downsides: duplicates
work that should be eventually done in NSURLConnection, yet not in
a cross-platform way.
What is a "proper" Accept-Language header? Older versions of
NSURLConnection used to send the complete list of languages specified in
the System Preferences.
By proper, I meant:
1) Yes, I intended to send the complete list of preferred languages.
2) Send the same language codes that other browsers do (e.g., Safari sends
"ru-ru" instead of "ru", and this breaks Outlook Web Access, rdar://4076004).
This created major compatibility headaches with many
websites, including sites assuming the user was coming from Germany just
because German was one of the listed languages, and web servers that choked
on anything but the simplest . We ended up dumbing down this header to match
more closely what other browsers send to resolve the compatibility problems.
I see... I remember that the old implementation had several other issues
(such as, but not solely, Japanese always getting a huge weight, breaking some
Adobe pages). The current one also has some drawbacks
(http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3510). And since the default
in Mozilla is two languages (en-us plus en), the servers that only accept the
simplest form probably wouldn't work with Mozilla/Firefox, too?
I absolutely agree that it's ultimately a matter of real world compliance.
Is it possible to disclose some of the examples that led to the aforementioned
change? That would make regression testing a lot easier.
If something's broken about this header, I suggest fixing it in
NSURLConnection; if there's a need for WebKit to get the header then we can
change NSURLConnection API so that you can query the header value. Adding
code in WebKit to work around the fact that a newer NSURLConnection is not
available yet sounds OK too.
OK, I'll do the latter if we come to any conclusion as to what the proper
Accept-Language header should be.
- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
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