http:// vs http://www 1

[IronKitten]

Is using the

http://www after

http:// always necessary?

Why or why not?

Thanks!

http://www.jdapublishing.com

 

[jimbopalmer]

If the site's DNS host has defined

http://www.whatever.com

and whatever.com to be the same IP address, either one works. If not, then you need the www. to make it work.

I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[cyberspace]

it's not always, but pretty much always

I have always wondered why that is myself actually...

Systems Administrator
BSc Network Computing, CCNA. Both in training!

 

[IronKitten]

Thanks to you both.. you have NO idea how hard it was to find an answer to that. Try doing a web search on url, url protocol, web address, etc... errrrr.

Thanks!

http://www.gardensimply.com

 

[mrhapyhipy]

It rely depends on the webmaster, weather they want to capture all the traffic, i.e. the people who don't use

http://www as

well as those that do.

The

http://www is

actually a subdomain of the main domain name, and can be anything the webmaster wants, of course everyone uses

http://www as

the main subdomain, it has become the norm. (Maybe when the internet first started to form, it was set as a standard)

What has become a common mis-understanding is that the

http://www tells

the computer that it needs to look on the world wide web. For more info on this subject lookup schema and TDL (Top Level Domain) and maybe subdomains as well.

 

[cyberspace]

Great post! Will do some more reading myself as the whole TLD thing is a little bit of a grey area for me

I also fell fowl of the

http://WWW point

you mention above!

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