I have indeed access to my logs, I'll check that and let you know. Many thanks Malcolm.
On May 2, 10:32 am, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 08:16 +0000, Phil wrote: > > Guys, > > > I use the i18n framework of django to offer my site content in two > > language: French and English. As the language preference is kept in a > > cookie, all the URLs of my site are therefore language agnostic. All > > is working fine. > > > But, when the googlebots hits my site, they only hit the French- > > translated content! > > I checked the cached version of the site in google and all the pages > > are in French. > > > Has somebody already given some thoughts on this and found a solution, > > or do I will have to change my URLs as to have to sets, one in English > > and one in French (http://www.mysite.com/path/to/url/fr/and > >http://www.mysite.com/path/to/url/en/) or something equivalent ? > > Do you have access to your web server's logs? If so, you might want to > pull out all the Google bot hits and see if there's a pattern in the way > they are pulling the URLs to see why they might be getting the French > content. > > I don't know for sure what your problem might be, but there is one > suspect: If Google's crawler is cookie-aware there is one bug in > Django's i18n stuff that may be hitting you. Unfortunately, the "set > language" link changes your i18n setting when it is requested via a GET > request. This is bad: it has side-effects, so only a POST should trigger > the change. The result of this bug is that anything crawling every link > in the site will have their language changed just by issuing a GET on > the "set language" link. In the very near future, I'm going to fix this > bug -- it's ticket #3651, if you're interested. I'm going to have a "day > of backwards-incompatible changes" later this week and this will be one > of them. > > Regards, > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
