Usually it has to do with how the webserver was set up. gaby Andrew Errington wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:13, you wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 07:49:00PM +1200, Don Gould wrote: >>> RTFM the web site... http://www.clug.net.nz/ isn't the right answer at >>> present. >> How about leaving off the totally redundant and stupid waste of 4 >> characters "www." and let the resource specifier "http" do the work for >> you? :-) Not that that has anything to do with the problem, of course. > > Actually, I'm curious. Can someone please explain why some sites won't > work *unless* you provide the redundant and stupid 'www.' portion? > > For example (in FireFox): > > http://jaycar.co.nz Does not work > > http://www.jaycar.co.nz Does work > > There are other sites like that, and this is just one example to illustrate > my point. > > Andrew
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