Patch KProtocolManager::defaultUserAgent...

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Dawit A. wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 August 2009 05:28:01 you wrote:
> > On Monday 17 August 2009, Dawit A. wrote:
> > > Attached patch changes the language sent as part of the
> > > defaultUserAgent string to only the current default language. There is
> > > no need to send a list like we do in HTTP's Accept-Language header.
> >
> > Can you elaborate? Why the change, what does it fix?
> >
> > RFC 2616 section 14.4 does show that passing a list of languages
> > in Accept-Language is perfectly acceptable. What seems to be missing
> > is the use of quality values like "en;q=0.7" to make sure the user
> > preferences are evaluated in the right order (*). But certainly replacing
> > the list of languages with a single language seems wrong, for those users
> > who have set up a list of preferred languages with fallbacks.
> >
> > (*) from the RFC:
> > "If no Accept-Language header is present in the request, the server
> > SHOULD assume that all languages are equally acceptable."
> > That's not what we want, we want that the first language has priority
> > over the second, etc. So IMHO the fix is to add q=0.9 to the 2nd
> > language, q=0.8 to the 3rd one, etc.
>
> I think you misunderstood... I am not advocating changing what is sent by
> the Accept-Language HTTP header at all. That is done correctly. No, What I
> am saying is that "the language type" included in default user-agent string
> does not need to contain what we send through Accept-Language header at
> all. No other browser does if you look at the user-agent string they
> produce. That is all.

Doh! You're right, I misunderstood. Objection withdrawn, please commit.

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