Posted by Dimitris Mexis on 12/16/05 13:37

J.O. Aho wrote:
> m6s wrote:
>
>>Can I select what page I will load based on the location of the viewer?
>>If the page that will load will be, English or other?
>
>
> Yes, it would be possible to do this, as most IP-numbers can be traced with
> whois servers where they should be located. This has of course it's drawback,
> what if you have a person visiting a foreign country and connect to the net
> and visits your site, then it could be in a language that the person don't
> understand.
>
> There is nowadays support for multiple languages in web servers, at least in
> the worlds most used one. This will make that you get the language that the
> user has set to be their default language in their browser. This will take a
> lot less CPU power and bandwidth for your web server than checking up from
> where an IP-number comes from and a user will most likely get the right
> language regardless from where they connect.
>
>
> //Aho

Any suggestion on what to read as tutorial? I want to tweak my site on
sourceforge.net, and don't want to make an html if possible! :-)

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