Unable to switch language with language negotiation enabled on 5.1.x, 5.2.x

[Alexander Obuhovich]

In-Portal has a feature (disabled by default), which allows automatically change website language to one, that matches language from "Accept-Language" header, sent by user's browser on first visit.

This way, when user opens http://www.website.tld/ (website on primary language, since no language in url) he is automatically redirected to http://www.website.tld/user-language/index.html.

There is only one major problem: first visit detection. We presume, that first visit is when no page has been specified = home page.

Since home page url is / instead of /index.html users is redirected to http://www.website.tld/user-language/index.html each time he wants to change language back to primary website language while staying on home page.

I think we should remember user's first visit in cookie, that would expire when browser window is closed instead of looking if page in url wasn't specified (only domain is specified).

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[Alexander Obuhovich]

Maybe cookie is simple idea, but it will be sent back and forth on each website page access.

To solve this checking referrer maybe is better option. If user is coming from outside (no matter if he has page in url or not) redirect him to his language and keep existing page.

[Dmitry A.]

Hi Alex,

Yes, it should be checked with Referrer - if it's not our website (including empty) it means it's a new visit in most cases.

Also, we might want to use Cookie to set as we already visited the website and Language that been selected or similar idea. I have seen this on other websites not with Language but other things that are checked.

DA

[Alexander Obuhovich]

Task: http://tracker.in-portal.org/view.php?id=1432

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