On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Koen Holtman wrote: > > > 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...
I once did something vaguely similar to mod_speling using an ErrorDocument CGI, so I don't think it would be too hard. Option 2 was my idea originally, though, so I think I still prefer that :-) James.
