Portal redirects guests to the default language when locale.prepend.friendly.url.style=2 and locale.default.request=true

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.0.12 EE, 6.1.1 CE GA2, 6.1.20 EE GA2
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.X EE, 6.1.30 EE GA3, 6.2.0 CE M6
• Component/s: Content Display Widgets > Language widget, WCM > Navigation
• Labels:
  • 6.0_release_notes
  • QA-R
  • QA-TP
  • ee-ts
• Branch Version/s:
  6.1.x, 6.0.x
• Backported to Branch:
  Committed
• Story Points: 3
• Git Pull Request: https://github.com/juliocamarero/liferay-portal/pull/1748

Portal redirects guests to the default language, despite of having:

• browser language preferences (reflected in accept-language header being sent to the server)
• locale.prepend.friendly.url.style=2
• locale.default.request=true

Steps to reproduce:
1) Configure portal as follows: locale.prepend.friendly.url.style=2 and locale.default.request=true. Make sure that the default portal language is "en_US"
2) Configure browser language preferences, including Spanish (es) as your preferred language
3) Delete all browser cookies
4) As a guest, access to http://localhost:8080/

Observed behavior:

• You get redirected to http://localhost:8080/en/ (default language)

Expected behavior:

• You should get redirected to http://localhost:8080/es/ (user preferred language as stated in accept-language header)