From: "Rodent of Unusual Size" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 10:14 AM
> "William A. Rowe, Jr." wrote: > > > > Another side issue that I notice; we should _REALLY_ be > > presenting MULTIPLE CHOICES rather than serving the smallest > > file. The smallest file -hack- is exactly that, someone > > worthless for reasons debated on this list many times. > > If you are referring to the past behaviour that the size > would be used as a tie-breaker if multiple documents > matched and had equivalent quality, it is NOT a hack -- it > is designed and intended behaviour. And if you think > the list has concluded multiple times that that is worthless, > I think you are indulging your revisionism gene because you > personally don't like it. My recollection is quite different. Clarifying [sorry] - it has been debated, multiple times, and several folks agreed with the existing behavior [ergo, it's never been changed.] With this change, now the admin has control over serving something v.s. serving a list of options based on languages. This is finer grained control we didn't offer before. I believe it mitigates (but perhaps doesn't eliminate) the need for the size tweak. > If the admin doesn't like that the smallest file is being > sent, he needs to adjust his quality values. Or we introduce > a means of disabling this network-friendly heuristic; I'm > not opposed to that. How would the admin adjust his quality values? We don't offer such an option. Sdding another ForceLanguagePriority-type option isn't out of the question. [I agree that server-side Q values are best - but I don't have the energy to introduce them right now.] I'd almost like to group all such options together, but ForceLanguagePriority is a bad choice for such a directive's name, no? Having hacked it a bit more, I believe some additional options, including Smallest [to consider the size] and other, similar options are probably worthwhile. Does anyone see merit in offering the old behavior of indexing by the client's list of accept-language? [Exclusive of the new Prefer option, since they need the same index store.] Options I played with include Accepted or Given, and I didn't like either name. Bill
