Re: Question about Accept-Language

Dean Willis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I believe it means you have no preferred language, thereby granting  
equal precedence to any language. In other words, the same as not  
putting the header field in at all.

My rule of thumb: a header field with no value has no value.

Honoring the Accept-Language by actually sending reason phrases, etc.  
in-language is not mandatory. As far as I know, most server packages  
ignore it.

And by the way, the SIP working group is now closed. I don't know how  
many folks are still monitoring this mailing list. All remaining work  
has transitioned eitehr to other working groups, or to that  
interminable no-mans land known as "AD sponsored".

--
Dean Willis, Former co-Chair.


On May 6, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Szilagyi, Mike wrote:

> In RFC3261, the Accept-Language section defines the headers meaning  
> with a language value present and its meaning when the header is not  
> present.
>
> 20.3 Accept-Language
>
>    The Accept-Language header field is used in requests to indicate  
> the
>    preferred languages for reason phrases, session descriptions, or
>    status responses carried as message bodies in the response.  If no
>    Accept-Language header field is present, the server SHOULD assume  
> all
>    languages are acceptable to the client.
>
>    The Accept-Language header field follows the syntax defined in
>    [H14.4].  The rules for ordering the languages based on the "q"
>    parameter apply to SIP as well.
>
>    Example:
>
>       Accept-Language: da, en-gb;q=0.8, en;q=0.7
>
>
> The grammar for Accept-Language shows the language value as optional:
>
>       Accept-Language  =  "Accept-Language" HCOLON
>                               [ language *(COMMA language) ]
>
>
> What does it mean if the header is present but with an empty  
> language value?
>
>           Accept-Language:
>
> Regards,
> Mike
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