[Gllug] HTTP CONNECT

Tethys tet at accucard.com
Fri Oct 11 10:10:27 UTC 2002


Matthew Thompson writes:

>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!!!

That's purely learned behaviour. Web site URLs start with a "www",
so people will type them, no matter what you say. Hint: that's what
CNAMEs are for:

	loki% host www.morethancard.com
	www.morethancard.com    CNAME   morethancard.com
	morethancard.com        A       213.86.45.119

Tet

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