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

[Tor-Einar Jarnbjo]

Christopher Harrington wrote:

> His suggested approach is a deviation from standards that are designed 
> to make the internet a predictable and well-defined place to operate. 
> When we deviate from the standards, we solve one problem, and cause 
> two more. Now, web browsers that are designed or configured to request 
> only a specific language will now receive a different, wrong language. 

Have you actually read the standards you are talking about here, or do 
you only write this because you have the urge to say something? 
According to the HTTP RFC, the Accept-Language defines a list of 
"preferred" languages and it is especially noted, that the server 
language selection algorithms should consider that the requester may not 
be familiar with the language matching techniques used and his browser 
configuration.

Actually, I read three languages at a native level and two more with 
some more effort, which are not listed in my browsers language 
preferences. I access and read web pages in at least one of these 
languages on a daily basis and I've _never_ experienced that a web 
server rejects my request, telling me that I have to reconfigure my 
browser to access the resource.

Tor