[9241] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Content negotiation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maurizio Codogno)
Thu Nov 9 02:58:40 1995
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 08:52:38 +0100
From: mau@beatles.cselt.stet.it (Maurizio Codogno)
To: batie@aahz.jf.intel.com
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
% Content Negotiation goes beyond browser type, but user type as well. For
% example, I would add this issue:
%
% 4. I want to send French pages to French speaking users, German, etc...
Accept-Language: seems to me the best way to accomplish it.
My personal idea is to modify slightly a server, so that the resource
/foo/bar.html actually can correspond to either /foo/DE/bar.html or
/foo/FR/bar.html ...
I understand that URC (or URN?) should be the right approach, but this could
be implemented in a hurry, provided that browsers optionally send the
correct header.
Any comments?
.mau.
