I have the usual Apache/Perl/CGI::Application setup -- one instance script in index.cgi, a bunch of packages, setup, and a bunch of HTML::Templates. So, run mode "welcome" uses welcome.tmpl, rm edit uses edit.tmpl and so on.

Right. Now we want to set up all the templates in different languages. So when folks from Germany visit the website, they get welcome.de.tmpl, folks from Latin America get welcome.es.tmpl, and us folks get welcome.en.tmpl.

Easy to do with Apache and its content negotiation. The browser (hopefully) sends a header, and Apache serves the correct language pages. Of course, if some goes snafu, the browser doesn't send the correct header, or the user simply wants to see another language, I can have a pull-down menu or some such widget to let the user switch languages.

But, everything is being intercepted and acted upon by our favorite language, so how do I do the content negotiation with Perl/CGI::Application?

Update: I guess I could make lang specific index.cgi... so, index.en.cgi, index.de.cgi, and so on, which then would call the appropriate templates. But that would be so lame... any changes in my program and I would have to make the change as many times as my lang versions. Oh what to do, what to do?

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In reply to content negotiation with Apache/cgi by punkish

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