Salem

Tried going to http://salemthegame.com/ instead of http://WWW.salemthegame.com/ and it's not working.

I noticed it's only in Chrome though, the rest redirects fine

Is it doing this with other websites? Defaulting to the "www" service was a default behavior in browsers since... 1998 or so? It's been a while since I've studied Internet architecture and protocols, and it wasn't a server feature back then, strictly a browser addition with Netscape 5 or 6 or so.

i think loftar did that intentionally

sabinati wrote:i think loftar did that intentionally

Sure.... "intentionally" ^_^

i recall a previous post on the subject, but i can't find it. i think it was something like loftar doesn't like the idea of the "default" url pointing to the www subdomain because he has a bunch of subdomains set up for specific purposes.

MagicManICT wrote:Is it doing this with other websites? Defaulting to the "www" service was a default behavior in browsers since... 1998 or so? It's been a while since I've studied Internet architecture and protocols, and it wasn't a server feature back then, strictly a browser addition with Netscape 5 or 6 or so.

Only for salemthegame.com or other sites who didn't want the redirection to happen

The basic reason is that I don't want to buy the opinion that the root name of a domain should be dedicated to web servicing. HTTP is but one of many Internet protocols, and since it's so loudmouthed and verbose I don't want to give it the special place in the DNS hierarchy that it clamors for. :P

Addendum: If web browsers want to properly handle domain names with "www" in front of them, they should support DNS SRV records, quite simply. I already have SRV records for HTTP directly on salemthegame.com.

loftar wrote:The basic reason is that I don't want to buy the opinion that the root name of a domain should be dedicated to web servicing. HTTP is but one of many Internet protocols, and since it's so loudmouthed and verbose I don't want to give it the special place in the DNS hierarchy that it clamors for.

Addendum: If web browsers want to properly handle domain names with "www" in front of them, they should support DNS SRV records, quite simply. I already have SRV records for HTTP directly on salemthegame.com.

Why not remove the domain in the first place ? I think domains are just a fancy web service that people use because they can't remember a series of numbers....
Was this an answer ? NO !

Having your own view on things is great !!! But sometimes you're just too stubborn that your logic makes no sense for the average person.


Some people will miss out on the website because they think it's broken or down, while it's just you being stubborn.