EDS content negotiation in Chromium

[Peter Schober]

* Rod Widdowson <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> [2013-03-01 10:46]:
> I'll brush off a non English VM (it will be windows) and try to
> reproduce this with Chrome.

Maybe someone already having a GNU/Linux+X11 desktop with Chomium will
have an easier time just accessing https://saml-test.aco.net/ and
adding "German" to their Chromium language setting (and have it listed
first, and then listed after English).

> As I recall (and this was a painful part of the EDS) this is a bit
> of a disaster area.  You see those nice setting that the browser
> gives you, well they are for the server and there is no way to get
> hold of them in javascript save getting the server to bounce them
> back down to you...

ACK, explains why looking at HTTP request headers did not show
anything useful.

> Various browsers provide more or less non-standard mechanisms to get
> a language, but it tends to be the base language of the session the
> browser is running in, not the language that the users specified in
> the browser.

Brrrrrr....

> So if this turns out to be reproducible it may not be fixable, or it
> may be a long process - or Google may show us the way...

Well, documenting that i18n doesn't work with Chromium at this time
would be a first step (if it indeed is reproducible),
-peter