Comments on: WWWhat’s in a Name? http://blog.superuser.com/2011/12/15/wwwhats-in-a-name/ The Super User Community Blog Mon, 05 Dec 2016 07:34:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.6 By: Svick http://blog.superuser.com/2011/12/15/wwwhats-in-a-name/#comment-3409 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:33:39 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4317#comment-3409

Try visiting these URLs:

https://www.superuser.com

My Firefox gives a security warning about this one, saying that it uses invalid certificate. If I understand it correctly, there certificate is valid for *.stackexchange.com, which does not include superuser.com.

]]> By: Bryan http://blog.superuser.com/2011/12/15/wwwhats-in-a-name/#comment-1041 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:50:33 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4317#comment-1041 One thing to note is that fact that many web browsers have now stopped displaying the protocol part of the URL in the location bar. Whilst not a massive issue, this might have influenced a few sites into somehow adding the ‘s’ back, if this is the case, then they are greatly misleading users, potentially luring them into a false sense of security. Personally, I don’t see this browser trend as progress, as I much prefer to see the full URL (but I am a geek rather than a user).

]]> By: soandos http://blog.superuser.com/2011/12/15/wwwhats-in-a-name/#comment-624 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:07:44 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4317#comment-624 There are a few times when the www. is required to access the site, or the default server supplies a redirect to the www server. Has messed me up a few times.

]]> By: Shane Madden http://blog.superuser.com/2011/12/15/wwwhats-in-a-name/#comment-621 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:30:35 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4317#comment-621 Multiple A records work just fine on a domain root, as would pointing www1 etc to it via CNAMEs (noting, of course, that using www1 without giving those names to clients gains you no load balancing). What doesn’t work is pointing your root as a CNAME record to somewhere else (like making a CNAME record at example.com pointing to http://www.example.com).

]]> By: nhinkle http://blog.superuser.com/2011/12/15/wwwhats-in-a-name/#comment-585 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:59:49 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4317#comment-585 Christopher: you can always answer a related question on another site with a link to this blog post or to the original question on Super User.

]]> By: Christopher Allen-Poole http://blog.superuser.com/2011/12/15/wwwhats-in-a-name/#comment-583 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:15:00 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4317#comment-583 It is a shame there is no question linking/aliasing between the SE’s as this would be good to have on a couple of SE sites. Oh well.

]]> By: George Edison http://blog.superuser.com/2011/12/15/wwwhats-in-a-name/#comment-579 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:34:12 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4317#comment-579 I should also point out that the ‘www’ subdomain can cause problems if your site’s security certificate wasn’t issued for subdomains of your primary domain. Chrome users, for instance, will see a page with a large red warning indicating that the site’s certificate is not valid for the the current domain and suggesting that they avoid the site.

One can, however, purchase certificates that are valid for subdomains (up to one level).

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