[thechat] Ooh, rings *too* many bells

[JCanfield at magisnetworks.com]

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> >     * Best: The site works with or without the Ws, but
> >       automatically removes the Ws if they are in the
> >       URL. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
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> i'm not sure i understand why removing the "www." is the best
> way to go. seems to me that the only way to do it would be
> with a redirect which would mean an extra trip to the browser
> and back again before seeing the site -- hardly optimal.

Do the redirect on the server side. When someone requests
http://www.example.com just return http://example.com instead. And perhaps
I'm fuzzy on the technical details, and this can't be done without an extra
round trip.

As I recall, there's not a real technical reason, but conceptually, I like
to think of the root of a domain as just TLD and SLD. Anything before the
first dot should be a third level qualifier, in my mind. Also, I really am
lazy enough about typing that I hate the extra four characters.

joel