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I've been surprised lately by the number of people that don't know about or understand HTTP headers. One discussion I saw was on a project that was trying to decide what language to serve a webpage in. They spent a good amount of time choosing a geo-location provider and library and then deciding what language to default to for locations that often had multiple languages. I asked why they didn't just use the Accept-L…
Google famously uses geolocation to set language instead of Accept-Language. They have their reasons, which I disagree with. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30638590
Agreed, this experience is terrible.