From: "Martin Kraemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 3:06 AM
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 06:31:16PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> > > To use a
> > > specific example, someone who requests "en-us, fr;q=0.8, en;q=0.7" should
> > > get the French page if the available variants are "fr" and "en" regardless
> > > of the setting of this directive. If, on the other hand, they request just
> > > "en-us" then I think we can give them whatever the heck we please.
> >
> > correct.
>
> Maybe I misunderstand the prefix rule, but I (thinking as a user) would be
> disappointed to get a french version if I requested "en-us" and all the
> server found was "fr" and "en". I would really expect to get the "en" variant
> (and I'd interpret http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.4
> like that if I were the user).
No, they just said they really want en-us (1.0), will settle for fr (0.8), and then
for en (0.7). By the rfc, they absolutely should get fr over en, since it's quality
value is higher.
Bill
