[IxDA Discuss] URLs without 'www' - having them work anyway

James Melzer jamesmelzer at gmail.com
Mon Jul 2 08:02:00 PDT 2007


Also, test the failure outside your firewall. A lot of organizations
have different behavior for their own domains inside the firewall. For
example, the failure of [your org].com internally may be because it is
a mail server or app server inside the firewall. But outside the
firewall that domain works perfectly normally.

~ James

On 7/2/07, Tim Barkow <tim at thinkcorps.com> wrote:
> All that's required is a simple addition to the web server config -- at least
> on Apache.  :)
>
> There's absolutely no reason not to do this, IMHO. It takes 5 seconds of
> a sysadmin's time.
>
> - Tim
>
>
> The following message was sent by "Tom Dell'Aringa" <pixelmech at gmail.com>
> on Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:34:57 -0500.
>
> > On 7/2/07, Jared M. Spool <jspool at uie.com> wrote:
> >
> > > ...Why is it a good idea to give people trying to reach you (even if
> it's
> > > a small number) a misleading error message?
> > > Hope that helps,
> > >
> >
> > Yeah, frankly that's the perfect way to put it. Thanks Jared!
> >
> > Tom
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