357970 - Site offers to download localized versions, but to wrong locales

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060921 Ubuntu/dapper-security Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060921 Ubuntu/dapper-security Firefox/1.5.0.7

Notice that the show IP addresses are from Portugal!
$ whois 62.48.148.138 | grep country
country:      PT
$ whois 195.138.0.74 | grep country
country:      PT

Firefox (unkown version) on Windows XP SP2 through proxy on 62.48.148.138 was offered pt_BR version
Firefox (1.5.0.7) on Windows XP SP2 through proxy on 62.48.148.138 was offered en_US version
Firefox on GNU/Linux Ubuntu 6.06 directly from 195.138.0.74 was offered en_US version

Best bet would be to use whois records... if they're being used, then there's a mighty interesting bug...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. visit http://www.mozilla.com/
Actual Results:  
1. wrong localizd version offered

Expected Results:  
1. correct localizd version offered

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Your IP address shouldn't matter, the only factor that determines which build you get is your Accept-lang header, which you can configure in Firefox's preferences dialog.

Comment 2

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The site offers localized versions based on what JavaScript's navigator.language (and its variants) is set to. In Firefox, this can be customized via the "general.useragent.locale" option in about:config.

No checking of IPs is done at all.