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From: Bud Hovell <bud@uzix.com>
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Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 09:29:05 -0800
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Subject: RE: no acceptable variant mystery
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Hi, Joshua ...

> "No Acceptable variant" means that the server tried to=
 negotiate
> with the
> client to deliver a document that the client finds acceptable,=
 but
> the
> server couldn't find an appropriate document.  In this=
 particular
> case, it
> looks like you may have browsers configured without "en" in=
 their
> "Accept-Language".  Therefore they do not find you=
 index.php.en
> acceptable
> and you get the "no acceptable variant" error.  There is a note=
 that
> explains language negotation in detail:
> http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/lang-neg.html

Very helpful notes -- thanks to Alan for the information, and to=
 you for 
providing the pointer and comments above. My understanding of the=
 default 
negotiation behavior was in error.

> If you are not actually offering multiple versions of the=
 document in
> multiple languages then you should just avoid negotation=
 entirely.

We anticipate other languages to be offered eventually, so we=
 structured 
that way from the beginning. It appears I can add an additional=
 link named 
 "index.php.php" to avoid this problem -- to be followed by some=
 
confirmation testing.

Again, thanks very much for your help.
---
Bud Hovell


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