Lang parameters

[Philip Linde]

Hi Sandra,

On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:15:35 +0200
Sandra Snan <sandra.snan at idiomdrottning.org> wrote:

> The protocol says that servers can emit lang paramenters but it's
> difficult for the server to figure out the value of that parameter since
> it's not in the gmi files. Have others figured out a best practice for
> this?

You can use a sidecar file, like .htaccess for web servers. For example,
if you have cheval.gmi (in french) and horse.gmi (in english) you could
have a file beside them that lists the language parameter for each file.

 $ cat .language
 horse.gmi: fr
 cheval.gmi: en

Another approach is to have language extensions in the filename, for
example horse.gmi.en and cheval.gmi.fr and let the server interpret the
extensions to decide on the language parameter.

I think web servers like Apache 2 support both of these methods in
some form, so taking a look at how Apache 2 does it might be useful.

-- 
Philip
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