[Catalyst] Re: Multi-language and REST

[Aristotle Pagaltzis]

* Ian Docherty <catalyst at iandocherty.com> [2008-04-25 16:25]:
> Knut-Olav Hoven wrote:
>> The elegang solution is to make use of the request header
>> Accept-Language, but not many users know how to change this
>> setting in their browsers.
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/HTRQ_Headers.html#z12
>   
> Yes, I have done this previously, it is elegant, but not
> RESTful

Please educate yourself about what “RESTful” means before you
make more claims about things not being so.

(Note I’m not saying Accept-Language is the right solution here.
Personally I think content negotiation in HTTP is missing a few
nuts and bolts to make it useful for non-trivial uses (which is
basically synonymous with “in human-operated browsers”).)

Regards,
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