[Gllug] HTTP CONNECT

[will]

Wulf Forrester-Barker wrote:
> Simon Wilcox wrote:
> 
> 
>>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!!!
> 
> 
> It's a shame really that URLs use the same character to delimit the
> server from the domain as is used to delimit the different portions of
> the domain. I'm sure joe-average would find it easier to understand the
> concept of server - domain - location if URLs looked something like:
> 
> http://www@web-den.org.uk/home/
> 
> (or using some other character... anything that won't turn up in a
> domain name) rather than
> 
> http://www.web-den.org.uk/home/

The information is already there in the 'http://'

Maybe you should be able to use web://web-den.org.uk/home/ or 
www://web-den.org.uk/home/ or something :-)

Will.


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