The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 7 months agoIt feels wronglemmy.worldimagemessage-square171fedilinkarrow-up1891arrow-down119
arrow-up1872arrow-down1imageIt feels wronglemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square171fedilink
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·7 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-squareold_machine_breaking_apart@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoPlease, tell me more
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 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
minus-squareGestrid@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 months agoTrue. And there’s also the websites that use “en.” or some other language code, and “www.” just leads to the language selection.
Because
www.example.comandexample.com, while the same website nearly all of the time, are technically different and could point to different places.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
True. And there’s also the websites that use “en.” or some other language code, and “www.” just leads to the language selection.