Apache appears to be misbehaving again. I am looking for someone to do some debugging to figure out where the problem lies. The only way I've been able to get the apache people to do anything about problems with content negotiation is to send them a patch fixing the problem (even then they often need to be sent more than once).
Here is the problem: 1. wget --header="Accept-Language: en" http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install variants install.html, install.{cs,en,fi,fr,hr,ja}.html, install.bat apache returns install.en.html - GOOD 2. wget --header="Accept-Language: en-us" http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install variants install.html, install.{cs,en,fi,fr,hr,ja}.html, install.bat apache returns install.bat - BAD 3. wget --header="Accept-Language: en-us" http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install variants install.html, install.{cs,en,fi,fr,hr,ja}.html apache returns install.html - GOOD 4. wget http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install variants install.html, install.{cs,en,fi,fr,hr,ja}.html, install.bat apache returns install.fr.html - BAD 5. wget http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install variants install.html, install.{cs,en,fi,fr,hr,ja}.html apache returns install.en.html - GOOD 6. wget --header="Accept: text/html, text/plain" http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install variants install.html, install.{cs,en,fi,fr,hr,ja}.html, install.bat apache returns install.en.html - GOOD 7. wget --header="Accept: */*" http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install variants install.html, install.{cs,en,fi,fr,hr,ja}.html, install.bat apache returns install.fr.html - BAD 8. wget --header="Accept-Language: en-us" --header="Accept: text/html, text/plain" http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install variants install.html, install.{cs,en,fi,fr,hr,ja}.html, install.bat apache returns install.html - GOOD 9. wget --header="Accept-Language: en-us" --header="Accept: */*" http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install variants install.html, install.{cs,en,fi,fr,hr,ja}.html, install.bat apache returns install.fr.html - BAD 10. wget --header="Accept-Language: en" --header="Accept: text/html, text/plain" http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install variants install.html, install.{cs,en,fi,fr,hr,ja}.html, install.bat apache returns install.en.html - GOOD 11. wget --header="Accept-Language: en" --header="Accept: */*" http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install variants install.html, install.{cs,en,fi,fr,hr,ja}.html, install.bat apache returns install.en.html - GOOD Note that install.html -> install.en.html Also, there are .pdf variants, but they don't seem to be involved here. The problems I fixed earlier only involved files with the same mime type (text/html). In this case, there are variants with different mime types (text/html and text/plain). >From the examples, it is fairly clear in what cases apache will go wrong. The hard part is setting up a server at home that will mimic this behavior and debugging apache. Consider it a challenge. BTW, www.debian.org is running apache 1.3.3-6 Jay Treacy
