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Subject: Re: Linking to handbook
From: Ville =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Skytt=E4?= <scop@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 22:37, Szilveszter Adam wrote:

> > Hmm, wouldn't it be neat if 1) or 2) then would detect the browser's
> > locale and redirect to the "correct" locale version (this might already
> > be the case, haven't checked).=20
>=20
> It isn't and this is on purpose. In order to not make the job of www
> mirror maintainers harder than is absolutely necessary, any solution
> that is bound to a specific server software or setup is consciously
> avoided. This applies to redirects as well as eg active content on the
> site which is also kept at an absolute minimum. As far as possible, the
> site should even be usable without a server from you local disk to
> facilitate development.
>=20
> > This could then be the recommended way
> > if a specific locale isn't important; one could always request
> > explicitly using 3).
> >=20
> > Of course, the redirector would have to know which versions are
> > available.
>=20
> It would be possible to do this, but imho not in a server-independent
> static way.

Ok.

> > Is this documented somewhere BTW...?
>=20
> Not much, but you can read abou similar discussions in the archives of
> this mailing list. (freebsd-doc). Use keyword: "redirect" that should
> catch most of them.

Hmm, maybe the placement of the question in my original post was
misleading.  However, by "this" I meant "the correct way of linking to
handbook"...

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