The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 4 months agoIt feels wronglemmy.worldimagemessage-square166fedilinkarrow-up11.02K
arrow-up11.02KimageIt feels wronglemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square166fedilink
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·4 months agoBecause www.example.com and example.com, while the same website nearly all of the time, are technically different and could point to different places.
minus-squareGestrid@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-24 months agoTrue. And there’s also the websites that use “en.” or some other language code, and “www.” just leads to the language selection.
minus-squareold_machine_breaking_apart@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoPlease, tell me more
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoIn the same way that English Wikipedia is https://en.wikipedia.org/ and Spanish is https://es.wikipedia.org/, there is nothing stopping any website from making www.blah.com point to something different than blah.com. It’s just a convention. https://serverfault.com/a/286141/374631
Because
www.example.comandexample.com, while the same website nearly all of the time, are technically different and could point to different places.True. And there’s also the websites that use “en.” or some other language code, and “www.” just leads to the language selection.
Please, tell me more
In the same way that English Wikipedia is https://en.wikipedia.org/ and Spanish is https://es.wikipedia.org/, there is nothing stopping any website from making
www.blah.compoint to something different thanblah.com. It’s just a convention.https://serverfault.com/a/286141/374631