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It feels wrong (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Because www.example.com and example.com, while the same website nearly all of the time, are technically different and could point to different places.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

True. And there's also the websites that use "en." or some other language code, and "www." just leads to the language selection.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Please, tell me more

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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.com point to something different than blah.com. It's just a convention.

https://serverfault.com/a/286141/374631