2014-07-07 17:26 GMT+03:00 Rob Weir <[email protected]>:

> 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
>
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