On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Aivaras Stepukonis, > > On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 04:41:21PM +0300, Aivaras Stepukonis wrote: >> The part that still needs addressing is how to redirect AOO website visitors >> to their native subsites based on their locale. >> >> Here's a quick example: if I type <http://www.mozilla.org> in the browser's >> address bar I am automatically referred to <http://www.mozilla.org/lt> as my >> locale is Lithuania. This is very convenient from a native speaker's point >> of view. Now, if I do the same thing with <http://www.openoffice.org> I am >> not automatically referred to <http://www.openoffice.org/lt>, I can reach >> the latter destination only by manually appending the suffix "lt." >> >> Can the Mozilla scenario be replicated at <http://www.openoffice.org>? > > Mozilla uses Python[1] on its server; AFAIK the ASF does not use/allow > server-side scripting, so the solution needs to be implemented on the > client-side. >
Though we should be able to do redirects via Apache HTTP Server and mod_rewrite. That can look at request headers and pick out the Accept-Language header, right? This assumes the user's browser is configured properly. -Rob > [1] https://github.com/mozilla/funfactory > https://github.com/mozilla/funfactory/blob/master/funfactory/urlresolvers.py#L69 > > > Regards > -- > Ariel Constenla-Haile > La Plata, Argentina --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
