Re: [PATCH 1/1] http: don't send C or POSIX in Accept-Language

From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 11, 2025, 22:17 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CAPUEsphkzaibm2FMBoj-9nbFch7UgRvyvmzErmno0z+2k5X+OA@mail.gmail.com>

Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com> writes:

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>> I don't want to implement language tag parsing here since we don't need
>> to do that.  I would like to do the simple thing to prevent commonly
>> used locales that don't represent actual language tags from being
>> included and not overengineer this design
>
> I think that your design of filtering C and POSIX accomplishes that,
> even if it might seem like hardcoding those two values is a little dirty.

Thanks for correcting me regarding language tag length Carlo.

I guess I am fine with filtering out "C" and "POSIX" now. Not perfect, but I think everyone agrees that we don't want to maintain a database of language tags just for this.

Collin