* Andr� Malo wrote:
> I'm planning to apply some request dependent extensions to mod_negotiation.
> The first is ready-to-commit :) but I'd like to hear some comments about
> them in general.
> The main goal is to make some configuration cases more simple.
Just sending a ping for those who may have overlooked the mail. Fullquote
without attachments follows:
> The attached patch (mod_negotiation.c.patch) introduces a new special
> variable "prefer-language" which influences mod_negotiation in that way,
> that it first tries to select only variants that have the specified
> language tag. If no success, it tries negotiation again with all variants.
> A more readable patch (without the addional indentation) is also attached.
>
> This allows, however, cool configurations like the following:
>
> AliasMatch ^/manual(?:/(?:de|en|ja|pt-br|ru))?(/.*)? \
> /path/to/manual$1
>
> <Directory "/path/to/manual">
> [...normal stuff...]
>
> # would be nice, but isn't supported yet:
> # SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/(de|en|ja|pt-br|ru)/ \
> # prefer-language=$1
>
> SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/de/ prefer-language=de
> SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/en/ prefer-language=en
> SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/ja/ prefer-language=ja
> SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/pt-br/ prefer-language=pt-br
> SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/ru/ prefer-language=ru
> </Directory>
>
> As you may guess, it would be very useful for the distributed documentation
> (there are/were already some discussions about the problem). So I'd also
> propose a backport to 2.0.
>
> The next step would be to make mod_negotiation recognize "no-gzip" and
> "gzip-only-text/html", too. In fact, I had an early patch for that (which
> dropped encoded variants entirely from the list), but I think, if it's
> implemented similar to the "prefer-language" code, it's much better.
>
> Any comments, suggestions or objections?
> If not, I'm going to commit the stuff :)
>
> nd
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