[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] RE: [6bone] /20 allocated - update your BGP filters!

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 15:09, Hans Petter Holen wrote:
> > This is for instance also used by many
> > services to 'localize' the data. Eg when you use www.google.com you will
> > be redirected to google.nl when in .nl or google.ch when in .ch.
> 
> This is really bad - my knowledge of Dutch is not getting any better when
> my coputer has an IP address tagged to be in the NL - or even worse, my
> understanding of French is still nil - even with a "French" IP address.

You should have been dutch then, as in that case you could at least
partially have understood those languages, having had them in school ;)

> My browser however knows what languages I prefer - so it would be nice is
> theese providers could listen to my browser rather than second guessing my
> language preferences.

That is indeed the Accept-Languages: option I mentioned.
But even though my browser passes it:
"Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5"
(stolen from a nc on localhost) google.com redirects me to google.ch
with: "Google.ch angeboten in: English Français Italiano"
Pointing to http://www.google.ch/en, http://www.google.ch/fr + /it

The PHP variant is a bit nicer in that respect, typing:
http://www.php.net/date redirects one to http://ch.php.net/date
which is a quite-close at least country-local version of the site
but in english. Though doing a small telnet to nl.php.net 80 and
a simple "GET /date HTTP/1.1\nHost: nl.php.net\n\n" returns the
page partially in dutch. I guess they can't pick from the three
languages here in .ch or they don't have a translation ready.

But these are just one of the few reasons that the country attribute
should not be removed, optional okey, but removed no.

Greets,
 Jeroen

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