[thelist] home page max size

Erik Mattheis gozz at gozz.com
Wed Dec 12 23:47:28 CST 2001


One caveat: some browsers get screwed up on cookies, leaving the 
developer the choice of setting a cookie for .domain.com and 
www.domain.com - or refreshing to either the www or [no www] and then 
reading/setting the cookie.

>  > From: Gerd Baumann <gb at inetwire.com>
>>
>>  > don't use it... in fact, refuse to use any site that instead of
>>  > accepting the URL without the "www," it *refreshes* me to the
>>  > "www"-prepended version...
>>
>>  Aardvark, would you care to elaborate or do you have
>>  any links on this topic? Just interested.
>
>go to http://ebay.com/...
>
>it displays a page with the URL with the "www," instead of just
>taking you to the site... why?
>
>i don't type in the "www" anymore... it really isn't needed... back in
>the old days, you needed it to get to the right port or machine
>(since there could be telnet.foo.com, gopher.foo.com, ftp.foo.com,
>mail.foo.com, etc...) because there were so many options, with the
>added benefit of knowing the protocol...
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