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

On 29 Mar 2003 at 9:22, Derick Rethans wrote: > 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? It is not: Your Accept-Language browser setting (parsed) de, en, en However, when I visit a CGI page I made which simply outputs the environment variables it receives, it says HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE = en-GB,en,de and that is the order I entered them into my browser (Opera 6.05 running under Windows 98; it shows "User-defined, [en-GB]" "English, [en]" "German, [de]" in the preferences box). Maybe this is because there are no weights attached to the individual choices (e.g. "en-GB;q=1.0, en;q=0.8, de;q=0.6")? But still, I thought the order was significant even if all languages have equal weight. Maybe the languages are sorted alphabetically so that "de" comes before "en"? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@gmx.net>