Website in Spanish (or other languages)

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russellhltn
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Re: Website in Spanish

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Post by russellhltn »

Yeah, I see that too. Anytime you go somewhere with a https and no "?lang=" tag. That means the going from the main page to another area will trigger it as the "lang" extension is not passed along. Most links don't pass that.
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spacmun
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Re: Website in Spanish

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Post by spacmun »

Hopefully this helps to clarify the problem. (Forgive me if I'm stepping into a duplicate thread or a known issue.) If I request the following URL:

https://www.lds.org/

The server sends a 301 redirect to this URL:

https://www.lds.org/?lang=spa

This behavior is happening regardless of whether my client sends English language headers as part of the request. To eliminate cookies, sessions, client-side headers, and cache, here is the test that I'm running (you should be able to replicate this problem):

$ curl -I https://www.lds.org/
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://www.lds.org/?lang=spa
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 0
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 06:23:42 GMT
Connection: keep-alive

This does NOT happen when using http. Only https seems to be configured this way.

I don't believe this can be a client-side issue. Also, because this does not happen when not in SSL mode, it sounds like a configuration problem on the server (or reverse proxy, load balancer, CDN, whatever). It would seem that if no cookie, session data, or geolocation were available to determine otherwise, that you should honor the language passed in by the client. Please let me know if I can help clarify in any way.

This bug hits me periodically because I use Firefox to browse normally, which is notorious for honoring a 301 permanently (after all, that's what a 301 is supposed to be).

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RBeatse
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Re: Website in Spanish

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Post by RBeatse »

In the past few days, I have gotten Spanish, Portugese, and Mandarin. Tis is showing up on Firefox, Chrome, and my iPad. I checked and my default should be English. Glad I'm not alone.
candacelee
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Re: Website in Spanish

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Post by candacelee »

comes up spanish at home for me (southern CA). also, the broadcast from the Marriott Center came up in Spanish in our church building today. took the brethren a moment to fix. Everyone in the congregation was trying to tell him how to do it.
mevans
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Re: Website in Spanish

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Post by mevans »

The Spanish problem seems to be getting worse. Tonight I'm on a different computer than usual. I started out in English, then went to something else, and when I came back, the page was in Spanish. I can't even change the language to English! After changing the language to English, it removed me from the page where I was and took me to this URL, which I find quite amusing:

https://www.lds.org/languages/eng?lang=spa

It's like the URL says my language for English is Spanish?!? I get a page in English with Spanish headers and footers. I did this in multiple browsers tonight.

I think I finally got my English to stick my modifying the URL.
*EDIT* No I didn't get it to stick. I've been changing the language a few times. It seems the default (without "?lang=eng") is Spanish.
RBeatse
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Re: Website in Spanish

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Post by RBeatse »

THis is the CHurch's new way to get missionaries ready to serve without all of the language training! If you are bombarded with multiple languages all the time, you learn them faster. :)
sharpelectronics
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Re: Website in Spanish

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Post by sharpelectronics »

I have noticed this same issue on Firefox and Chrome. I have the HTTPS Everywhere Add-On installed on both of these browsers which forces the browser to load the HTTPS version of every site. When I turn the add-on off, the site does not load in Spanish.
mevans
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Re: Website in Spanish

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Post by mevans »

Tonight the site wants to default to Chinese for me. That's a new one for me. I know some other people have seen Chinese. Until now, all I've ever seen was Spanish or Portuguese (oh, I think I've seen this language called English show up every once-in-a-while, too ;) ).
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Re: Website in Spanish (or other languages)

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Post by shoalcreek5 »

On my Debian Jessie computer, I have tested it in Opera 12.15, Konqueror 4.8.4, Chromium 27, Chrome 28, and Firefox/Iceweasel 20.0. I tried explicitly setting both https and http with just www.lds.org as the address. My test results are:

When entering "http://www.lds.org", ALL browsers, including Firefox, defaulted to English.

When entering "https://www.lds.org", all browsers EXCEPT Firefox defaulted to English. Firefox defaulted to Spanish. Firefox, by default, is set to get https pages if they exist, so entering lds.org in Firefox's location bar will automatically default to the https version which is coming up in a foreign language.

Now, if this is what is happening with all clients that are getting the other language pages, then it is left to find what is different about the https defaults on these browsers that is bringing up the other language instead. Sorry, I don't have an Android or iOS device to test. I'll leave that up to others.
Mormon85Vinny
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Re: Language problem

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Post by Mormon85Vinny »

I keep loading the church website, lds.org, in Spanish, but I want it in English. Is there something wrong with Firefox?
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