On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Joshua Slive wrote:
[....] > So that is two suggestions: > > 1. Find a way to provide ErrorDocument with enough information so that > webmasters can customize the "No Acceptable Variants" message. This could > also be useful for mod_speling. > > 2. Add a "FallBackLanguage" directive to use when negotiation fails. > > These directives could be combined such that ordinary content gets the "No > Acceptable Variants" ErrorDocument when negotiation fails, but the > ErrorDocument itself is subject to the FallBackLanguage directive in case > it can't find a good language. > > And possibly: > > 3. Change the default text of the "No Acceptable Variants" page to be > a little more friendly, at least in English. > > Unfortunately, I don't know this code nearly well enough to even start > implementing this stuff. If I recall correctly, the message under 3. above is hard-coded in mod_negotiation, and it will be fairly trivial to hard-code some additional english text in it. I think that 2. Add a "FallBackLanguage" directive is a good enough idea that, if there is some wider consensus here that this directive would be a good thing to have, I am volunteering to code up a patch for it (I think this would take me a day of work). I know too little about Apache internals to guess how much work 1. would be... Koen.
