[Catalyst] setting/getting session data from within tests

[Yuval Kogman]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 19:19:46 +0200, Daniel McBrearty wrote:
> I have done on the current site, but dropped it in favour of a
> language neutral page that you need to click through:
> 
> http://www.engoi.com/public/menu.cgm
> 
>  The problem is that so many people don't set preferences in their
> browsers, at least according to apocryphal evidence.

That's they're problem. These people can manually select it in the
session to override that header.

> I'm thinking about a hack to try to determine geography by IP, in the
> absence of session data, for future. I think this would be a lot
> better than browser settings.

Please don't.

Geography != language.

Some countries have many languages. Sometimes geo-ip databases get
it wrong. Sometimes the user lives in a foreign contry but has set
the language otherwise.

I hate google for popping up in hebrew and making me reselect
english every time i switch computer.

On the other hand most browsers copy the accept-language header from
the locale preference list of the OS, so the native language of
their programs is also the native language of the multilingual
websites they visit.

-- 
  Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch at woobling.org>
http://nothingmuch.woobling.org  0xEBD27418

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