On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 22:47:04 +0100 Jean Louis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:29:52AM -0500, Therese Godefroy via RT > wrote: > > > Description", if the intention is to read the full description > > > from website project. > > > > Done. > > > > > Also, to keep more uniform the links for the project websites, it > > > would be good if starts with 'www.' for the links that do not > > > have it. > > > > I checked all the links. They all correspond to the URL you > > actually get. Several of them don't have www. The only one I > > changed is https://dragora.org --> > > https://dragora.org/repo.fsl/doc/trunk/www/index.md (but the > > redirection is automatic anyway). I also changed http to https when > > https did work. > > Please note that there is absolutely no rule by > standards that a website shall have "www." as > subdomain name. > > Website may respond only with its domain name, > such as example.com or with any subdomain as > any.example.com and need not have www at all. For the most cases out there, you don't want to left the prefix for 'www' ;-) > So it is incorrest to say "it would be good if > links start with 'www'" -- for links which do not > have eventually www, if they have it alright, but > one shall have the link that distribution author > designates, and if it has no www, than no www > shall be used. I don't know which sites are supporting the prefix, I was trying to make a simple suggestion to make it look more "formal". > It is a host name, and that host name may be > there, may be not, it may be used as plain domain > name or with any host name. > > So assumption that www exists is incorrect. One > must ask the website owner which hostname they > wish to use. > > Jean >
