Re: Why do I get redirected to a German page?

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Philip Newton wrote: > Hi, I followed a link to www.php.net/date , which redirected me to > http://www.php.net/manual/de/function.date.php -- a German > page. > > Why is this? It is true that I am in Germany, but my browser's Accept- > Language headers are "en-GB,en,de", which means that I prefer British > English to "generic" English, and English to German. I think the web > site should respect that. > > I presume it tried to sniff my IP address, which can be cute, but > misleading (e.g. if all of a global ISP's users go through a proxy in > one country, or a multinational corporation routes traffic over their > internal network before going out onto the Internet in one location -- > or if someone lives in a country but a given language is not their > native language). And what do you do for someone from Switzerland, > Belgium, or Finland, or any other country with more than one official > language? > > Please support the Accept-Language header; that's what it's there for. > (Though at least you have the courtesy to set a cookie indicating the > last language; if I change the URL by replacing "de" with "en", I get > another cookie, which, I presume, would store my preference if I would > accept it. But that's just a band-aid.) It should really do that already, can you go to php.net/my.php to see if it is correctly parsed? Derick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ JDI Media Solutions http://www.jdimedia.nl/ PHP Magazine - PHP Magazine for Professionals http://php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------