> CJB is nice indeed. And it looks far more better then come.to/phoenix
> However, did you know you can skip the www in www.phoenix.cjb.net I don't
> think the DNS servers support this (have to look that up), but at least
> practically all browsers automatically add www to it. And the users of
> browsers who don't do that (I don't know one) will probably know they have
> to add www to an url if it doesn't start with it.
DNS servers/entries don't have to start with www at all! There are plenty of
URL's whcih doesn't (and can't) start with www. E.g., there is a computer on
the university here, called studs. If I run a httpd (HTTP daemon) on it (thus:
a http server), you should use the URL: http://studs.sci.kun.nl/ to reach it!
With 'www' before it, it will not work. No, then it would actually access the
computer named "www", instead of "studs"! You can ofcourse make it work with
www to do some aliassing.... But in general it's nonsense that all URL's start
with 'www' and browsers shouldn't put 'www' in front of the URL automaticly.
The browsers I use don't do that! Lynx and Netscape 3.01 (Unix) don't.
So, to come back to what you're saying:
> However, did you know you can skip the www in www.phoenix.cjb.net
So, www.xxx.cjb.net is an alias for xxx.cjb.net, which again is an alias for
another URL/computer.
> think the DNS servers support this (have to look that up),
Support what?? Does this make any sense?
> practically all browsers automatically add www to it
So this is not true, and even not logical to do.
>And the users of browsers who don't do that (I don't know one) will
>probably know they have to add www to an url if it doesn't start with
>it.
So, no! No-one has to add 'www' to an URL if it doesn't start with it, since
then it would be a different URL!
Grtjs, Manuel ((m)ICQ UIN 41947405) ("Better to talk about stuff you DO know
something about! Like the nice Toshiba info you gave me!" ;-)
PS: MSX 4 EVER! (Questions? See: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/)
PPS: Visit my homepage at http://www.sci.kun.nl/marie/home/manuelbi/
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