Sessionhandling

[Michael Ströder]

Lutz Schroeer wrote:
> Michael Str?der <michael at stroeder.com> wrote:
> : Most users do *not* configure their browsers anyway. Therefore it's 
> : almost useless to use HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE or similar env vars.
> 
> Well, at least you can try.

As you can see in PyWebLib I did. I'm also using it in web2ldap to 
determine the preferred language for HTML templates. Guess what? Most 
german users see the english HTML output...

> My solution to the orignal poster's problem
> would be to detect the browser's language configuration and additionally
> offer the possibility to change the language and store it in a (maybe
> persistent) cookie.

Note that someone suggested to use HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE for the orignal 
poster's problem to avoid session handling at all.

Ciao, Michael.