Re: [htdig-dev] Please vote for 'accept_language' attribute

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Gabriele Bartolini:
>     I have a reasonable request. First of all, it is not hard to do and I 
> think I could do it quickly. It is just that I don't wanna do it without 
> your opinion.
> 
>     I think it could be handy to configure the digger to accept a language 
> of a list of languages as the HTTP says for the 'Accept-Language' directive.
> 
>     What do you think of issuing a new configuration attribute called 
> 'accept_language'? By default it is empty, but it could be set for instance 
> to 'it' or 'en' or also 'it, en, en-us' and so on.
> 
> So:
> 
> Proposed attribute name: 'accept_language'
> Program: htdig
> Type: string
> Default: empty
> Example: en-us, en, it
> Description: - I will work it out with the best english I can produce! - :-)
> 
>     I wanna modify the HtHTTP code to handle this and put it into 
> ht://Check and, as long as this class is now synchronised with ht://Dig 
> one, I would like to do it for our dear search engine too. What do you think?
> 
>     I think this configuration attribute could have a URL and Server scope 
> as well.

Sure, if you're willing to implement this, I give it my

+1

However, shouldn't the attribute type be "string list"?  Also, for
consistency with other string list attributes, it might make sense if
the commas weren't needed, e.g. "accept_language: en-us en it"

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