[HamWAN PSDR] Radio World: Cause of Tiger Mountain Fire Disclosed

Craig Davis craig.dcan at iinet.com
Sat Nov 24 15:18:38 PST 2018


The reason that I reported that the URL didn’t work was because the “dot” in “dot com” was missing in the original link. Good discussion though.

 

Craig KE7MPM

 

From: PSDR <psdr-bounces at hamwan.org> On Behalf Of Jeff Francis™
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2018 3:09 PM
To: Puget Sound Data Ring <psdr at hamwan.org>
Subject: Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Radio World: Cause of Tiger Mountain Fire Disclosed

 

It's not a router limitation, it's a matter of the website owner making the effort to make sure that his webserver responds to www.domainname.com <http://www.domainname.com>  and domainname.com <http://domainname.com>  in the same way (because by default, they do not, which is correct behavior because these are two completely different domain names). Typically, the hosting company will create a DNS A record for domainname.com <http://domainname.com> , then a CNAME record that points to the previous A record for www.domainname.com <http://www.domainname.com>  (though there are certainly many variations on that theme, depending on how your servers are configured). Then you just configure Apache/IIS/whatever to respond to both domain names with the same content. It's not a router issue, it's a laziness/awareness issue. And enough people don't make the effort to get this right that it's always worth checking for the behavior you expect before passing along a truncated DNS name (ie, without the leading "www") and leading people to links that don't work. 

 

Jeff/N0GQ

 

 

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 7:59 PM Tony Ross <w7efs at centurylink.net <mailto:w7efs at centurylink.net> > wrote:

The OP's published link worked fine here. One wonders why people haven't progressed beyond the 1990s "www" router limitations, so after verifying the server's capabilities I use http://radioworld.com/news-and-business/cause-of-tiger-mt-fire-disclosed to inform others.

    Tony

On 11/22/18 9:03 AM, Craig Davis wrote:

Corrected link

https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/cause-of-tiger-mt-fire-disclosed

 

From: PSDR  <mailto:psdr-bounces at hamwan.org> <psdr-bounces at hamwan.org> On Behalf Of Jamie Hughes
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2018 7:06 AM
To: Puget Sound Data Ring  <mailto:psdr at hamwan.org> <psdr at hamwan.org>
Subject: [HamWAN PSDR] Radio World: Cause of Tiger Mountain Fire Disclosed

 

Just in case you guys didn't see this.

Radio World: Cause of Tiger Mountain Fire Disclosed. 

 

 

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