httpd: french

Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 12:17:51 -0300 (ADT)
From: Edward Dyer <aa146@chebucto.ns.ca>
To: "Michael T. Smith" <michael@csuite.ns.ca>
cc: CSuite Francais <csuite-french@chebucto.ns.ca>, CCN Tech <ccn-tech@chebucto.ns.ca>
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On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Michael T. Smith wrote:

> I've copied over the URL rewriting entries from httpd.conf on ccn-temp and
> http://reseau.chebucto.ns.ca/ is now returning French pages.

Great!  Thanks Michael!

> I've enabled Keepalives (or was there a reason for them being off?)
> and things seem a bit faster. I've also added a new rewriting rule, so

I believe there was a reason for doing so, but I'm not so sure
whether we disabled them or it happened by default.

It is my understanding that keepalives improve the response to
individual users who are browsing multiple pages on a site (good)
but result in an increased network and server load (bad).
Where we should draw the line is a judgement call, but we don't seem
to have a high load problem right now (good).

I vote for keeping them enabled.

> that with my language preference set to fr I get
> http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/ -> http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/index.html.fr
> where before I'd get http://www.chebucto.ns.ca//index.html.fr
> 					       ^ extra slash

We still have a problem with the link "Our english site" on
index.html.fr but I think if it were recoded to specify
"http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Home.html" it would work better.

It was, however, my understanding that, for www, when a browser
issued an http request with language specified as fr that Apache
would honour that.  Not working for Netscape 3.0. 

On the other hand, for reseau, Apache would force french.

Behaviour on chebucto.ns.ca and halifax not specified (perhaps we
could assign halifax as an "english force" mode, (change the edit
above :)   

Discussion?

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