Content Negotiation

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:30 am Post subject: Content Negotiation

Can you tell me if you support full content negotiation, on PHP files too?

I've been through a few hosts and they can't do it! Titan doesn't run Apache and can't do it. One & One run Apache 1.3 but won't tell me what to do in .htaccess to turn it on! All examples I've found by Googling only seem to work with Apache 2 (seemingly all that needs to be done in .htacess is to turn MultiViews on and insert an AddType declaration for PHP)

What I want to be able to do is to call a URL *without* a file extension.

For example http://www.domain.org.uk/file

And the server will find and return a page called file.php if it exists, otherwise file.html.

I also want to be able to do language negotiation so if I call up a file with a URL like the above, the server will arbitrate between files called

file.php.en
file.html.en
file.php.cy
file.html.cy

(I know how to set up the cy language in .htaccess if you haven't go t it by default)

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5684

I'm afraid we don't support what you are after.

Andrew

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 7:21 am Post subject: Re: Content Negotiation

Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:58 pm Post subject: Re: Content Negotiation

Guest

just a thought for a workaround...

You can call a file without an extension by naming it the servers default name (usually index.html or index.php etc) and then putting it in a folder of the name you want eg: browsing to http://www.yourname.com/file

will return http://www.yourname.com/file/index.php

Then couldn't language negotiation be done within your php script eg. having a index.php file that checks language then includes either en.php or cy.php depending on detected language.

There's a php language detection script that should help at: http://techpatterns.com/downloads/php_language_detection.php

NetHosted Staff Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 217

That would work. there are PHP variables that will tell you the client preferred language and you can then use the PHP header('Location: /index.php.<user_language>'); to redirect the user.

Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 4:46 pm Post subject:

Very good.

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