Bug www. and no www.?

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  2. deluxdon

    deluxdon Catch Me If You Can...!!!™ Staff

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  3. Love*

    Love* Well-Known Member

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    It's everyone. :) (Happens to me too)
     
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    http://www.forums.digitalpoint.com/ is actually an incorrect format. The 'forums' bit takes the place of the 'www' bit as they're both subdomains for the domain digitalpoint.com. Kind of like introducing yourself as human after telling folks your name when meeting them.
     
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  5. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    It's intentional (and always been that way).
     
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  6. Stingerftw

    Stingerftw Well-Known Member

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    Oh ok, I guess it's not that much of a big issue.
     
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    Actually it is. There's an RFC against incorrect www usage like that. You have to get off the internet now for 5 years.
     
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    Helvetii Notable Member

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    Huh?

    Try this: http://www.finance.yahoo.com
     
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    That was meant as a joke.

    Note that they forward it to the correct one without it.

    This actually comes from a bug with BIND back in the um, well, a very long time ago where fourth level domains with the *.com extension weren't accessible. Some networks I have to use, using the extra prefix caused the url to not be accessible.
     
    theapparatus, Oct 27, 2009 IP