[Zope] i18n site and search robots

[Gilles Lenfant]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tino Wildenhain" <tino@wildenhain.de>
To: "Dieter Maurer" <dieter@handshake.de>
Cc: "Gilles Lenfant" <gilles@pilotsystems.net>; <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] i18n site and search robots


> Hi,
>
> Dieter Maurer wrote:
> > Gilles Lenfant wrote at 2003-7-22 15:50 +0200:
> >  > This is not strictly speaking a Zope problem, but certainly lots
amond you
> >  > faced and fixed this.
> >  > I made a i18n site with Localizer that runs fairly good, including
its i18n
> >  > search engine.
> >  > But what about external searche engine robots (google, infossek...)
> >  > How to "tell" them that they may browse and index the pages in
french,
> >  > english, spanish (...), changing their http header "Accept-Language"
?
> >
> > Not sure, whether this is the most elegant way, but:
> >
> >   You could have "language access folders", e.g. "en", "fr", "de".
> >
> >   Requests that go through these folders select the corresponding
> >   language. A ("SiteAccess") AccessRule in the folders ensures
> >   that "Accept-Language" is correctly set in "REQUEST.environ"
> >   and that even "absolute_url" generates the correct language
> >   specific URLs.
> >
>
>
>
> According to the W3C standard, the server would
> 1.) issue a vary: Accept-Language  header on each request
> 2.) if no accept-language header is sent, definition requires to send
>      300 "Multiple Choices" as status and provide a list of available
>      variations
> In the multiple choice answer, the list could consist of the said links
> to the language-acess folders Dieter proposed.
>
>
> This would make a good crawler switch.
>

Many thanks Tino,

Could you please give this full doc URL.
I didn't find this (or search correctly) in the w3c.

Thanks in advance.

--Gilles