The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 1 年前It feels wronglemmy.worldimagemessage-square173fedilinkarrow-up11.07Karrow-down122
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minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·1 年前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.
minus-squareGestrid@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 年前True. 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-up2·1 年前Please, tell me more
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 年前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
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