On 2019-03-26, [email protected] wrote: > Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >> I have SM set to accept three languages, in the following order: >> >> Edit | Preferences | Browser | Languages >> >> Websites are sometimes available in more than one language. Choose >> languages for displaying web pages, in order of preference. >> >> Languages in order of preference: >> English [en] >> Russian [ru] >> Korean [ko] >> >> Most sites honor these preferences, but one does not: >> <https://support.viki.com/hc/articles/115011255127-Viki-Comment-Policy> >> >> If I visit this page using SM with Korean listed anywhere -- first, >> second, or third -- it will redirect to the Korean version of the >> page: >> <https://support.viki.com/hc/ko/articles/115011255127-Viki-Comment-Policy> >> >> If I delete Korean from the list and clear cache and cookies, I get >> redirected to the English version: >> <https://support.viki.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011255127-Viki-Comment-Policy> >> >> >> But as soon as I restore Korean to the list, even if I list it as my >> third choice, the site goes back to serving the Korean version. >> >> I have the same preference set in Internet Exploiter 11, and the >> site always serves the English version. >> >> What do you think? Is this a bug in SM? Or is it just me? > > The browser indicates the preferred languages to the server through a > header in the request, in this case: >> Accept-Language: en,ru;q=0.7,ko;q=0.3 > > That looks reasonable to me, indicating that English is preferred but > Russian and Korean are also acceptable. It is then up to the server to > decide which language to return. In this case, it appears the server > decides to return Korean (I see the same as you, once I realised that > it redirects to a language-specific URI so just refreshing isn't > sufficient to try different options!) That does seem strange, given > that an English version is available, but it doesn't look SeaMonkey is > doing anything wrong as far as I can see. > > It's not clear to me whether the server is required to select a > language strictly using the weightings specified by the browser, or > whether it's free to make it's own choice which may or may not be > influenced by the specified weighting. It's certainly acceptable for a > server to return a language which isn't listed if none of those listed > are supported (that's explicitly stated as being encouraged, in > preference to returning an error). > > I'm not sure why the behaviour would be different from IE. It does > seem necessary to clear the cookies, otherwise you get redirected to > the same language as before - presumably you're clearing cookies set > by viki.com when trying IE? It's also possible that the server for > some reason responds differently depending on other headers, e.g. the > user-agent, or that IE does something different.
From my testing here (after adding Korean to the list), it looks like the english version of that page is only served if you have "English/United States" first in the list, just "English" isn't enough. -- Nuno Silva _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
