[Gllug] HTTP CONNECT

Stig Brautaset stigbrau at start.no
Fri Oct 11 10:00:45 UTC 2002


On Oct 11 2002, Matthew wrote:
> 
> On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 10:29 AM, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> 
> >On 11 Oct 2002, Mark Lowes wrote:
> >
> >>If you can't be bothered to type in the url correctly why should you
> >>expect the server to help you out?
> >
> >If you can't be bothered to accept my shorthand, I can't be bothered to
> >view your site :)
> 
> Ironically we have users that insist that there must be a www. infront 
> of the URL for our on-line services and can't get their heads around 
> the fact that there isn't. We've had some pretty irate people telling 
> us that www.xxx.yyy.com doesn't work and they just can't manage to type 
> xxx.yyy.com!!!

Is _that_ why it's almost only .uk sites that require the www. prefix?
It drives _me_ mad that I have to type the www to access them :)

Stig
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