[Vorbis] Can't access www.xiph.org from Japan

Sun Sep 25 16:04:37 PDT 2005

I do not know the other English site which return 406 error for
Japanese. So, I think xiph's web server is misconfigurated.

Most people don't know browser's language setting. So, they stop
reading, since they get 406 error per moving pages.

Please fix it. What is necessary must just be to add
"ForceLanguagePriority Fallback" to httpd.conf.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_negotiation.html#forcelanguagepriority

> I can confirm the same if I reduce Firefox's language settings to French
> [fr] only.  However, I'm not sure it's actually a bug:
> 1. If English [en] is in my browser's list of languages (but not
>   necessarily 1st preference) I do get the front page.
> 2. The link on the 406 page will take you to the English xiph frontpage.
> 
> Effectively you're asking it for a page in Japanese and it's telling you
> it doesn't have one.  You don't have English in as a fall-back option,
> so you get an error (it can't find an acceptable language); it tells you
> this and offers a link to where the content can be found, but not in
> one of the languages you've specified.
> 
> imalone
> 
> pub at cyanet.jp wrote:
>> Can't access www.xiph.org from Japan. Probably it can't access from the
>> other non-English countries. Please fix it.
>> 
>> $ telnet www.xiph.org 80
>> Trying 195.169.149.105...
>> Connected to www.xiph.org.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> GET / HTTP/1.0
>> Accept: */*
>> Accept-Language: ja
>> Host: www.xiph.org
>> 
>> HTTP/1.1 406 Not Acceptable
>> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 18:00:47 GMT
>> Server: Apache/2.0.53 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.1.1 PHP/4.3.10-10ubuntu4.1
>> Alternates: {"index.shtml.en" 1 {type text/html} {language en} {length
>> 3931}}
>> Vary: negotiate
>> TCN: list
>> Content-Length: 365
>> Connection: close
>> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
>> 
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
>> <html><head>
>> <title>406 Not Acceptable</title>
>> </head><body>
>> <h1>Not Acceptable</h1>
>> <p>An appropriate representation of the requested resource / could not
>> be found on this server.</p>
>> Available variants:
>> <ul>
>> <li><a href="index.shtml.en">index.shtml.en</a> , type text/html,
>> language en</li>
>> </ul>
>> </body></html>
>> Connection closed by foreign host.
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