Date: 11 Aug 2002 19:39:18 +0300 From: Ville =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Skytt=E4?= <scop@FreeBSD.org> To: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu> Cc: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Linking to handbook Message-ID: <1029083959.1905.1.camel@bobcat.ods.org> In-Reply-To: <20020809193731.GA1195@fonix.adamsfamily.xx> References: <1028834976.14162.539.camel@bobcat.ods.org> <20020808220559.A9204@marduk.blackend.org> <1028838426.14159.570.camel@bobcat.ods.org> <20020809193731.GA1195@fonix.adamsfamily.xx>
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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"... --=20 \/ille Skytt=E4 scop at FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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