:rose: on another board, SpyDie has a broken link - because a typo left 1 "W" out of "WWW", so the link is posted as:
http://ww.landzdown.com (i tried, but couldn't post there, to alert him)
:shock: i almost always strip my URL's of "index.html" and the "www."
leaving out the WWW works fine 99.9% of the time, but every so often a page won't load.
* Question:
i know it stands for World Wide Wide, but does anyone know why the "www." is in URL's AT ALL? - if it's NOT NECESSARY?
(i've tried Googling for more info, but, well... "www url" doesn't bring up the hits i'm looking for...)
These days, it is not uncommon for people to leave out the WWW-prefix - most servers are configured to recognize that fact, so it should usually work just as well. I can see why people would consider it unnecessary and annoying, for the "http://"-part should really be all the server needs to determine how to reply.
This can be even more annoying on the server-side of especially restricitve, web-based-networks, when care needs to be taken that there is no difference in permissions between the WWW variation and non-WWW variation of the domain. Some administrators even incorporate code to get rid of the 'www.'-part displayed in the address-bar of people visiting their sites for good - if one were to visit such a site with said prefix, it would simply disappear upon access.
interesting, herumutsu, thanks for the info...
:rose: i've noticed when i use "http://google.com", it shows as http://www.google.com when i connect...
* i've read it's a good idea to add the last "/" at the end of a URL - but myspace.com profiles get a PAGE NOT FOUND, if you add that last END-SLASH. (Weird... something to do with them being in ASP?)
:shock:
funny - i just typed a domain name (WITHOUT .com or .net) into OPERA & FIREFOX, and both got the right page, by pre-pending "http://" or "http://www." and adding ".com/" to the end of the domain. the same thing in INTERNET EXPLORER, though, triggers the MSN search engine, which DOESN'T get me any closer to the page/URL...
:blink1: since google bases page popularity on inbound links, i used to be concerned that google WOULDN'T know 200 inbounds to www.mywebsite.com + 200 inbounds to mywebsite.com = 400 to THE SAME PAGE...
:rose:
not so, though. the reason i thought this, was that google handles search quieries differently, depending on the www. for ex:
inurl:landzdown.com has 4,970 hits
inurl:www.landzdown.com has 4,770 hits
site:www.landzdown.com = 4950 hits
site:landzdown.com = 4800 hits
etc...