<div dir="ltr">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 <a href="http://www.domainname.com">www.domainname.com</a> and <a href="http://domainname.com">domainname.com</a> 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 <a href="http://domainname.com">domainname.com</a>, then a CNAME record that points to the previous A record for <a href="http://www.domainname.com">www.domainname.com</a> (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. <div><br></div><div>Jeff/N0GQ</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 7:59 PM Tony Ross <<a href="mailto:w7efs@centurylink.net">w7efs@centurylink.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    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
    <a class="m_5986605966010508132moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://radioworld.com/news-and-business/cause-of-tiger-mt-fire-disclosed" target="_blank">http://radioworld.com/news-and-business/cause-of-tiger-mt-fire-disclosed</a>
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    <div class="m_5986605966010508132moz-cite-prefix">On 11/22/18 9:03 AM, Craig Davis wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Corrected link<u></u><u></u></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><a class="m_5986605966010508132moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/cause-of-tiger-mt-fire-disclosed" target="_blank">https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/cause-of-tiger-mt-fire-disclosed</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> PSDR
              <a class="m_5986605966010508132moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:psdr-bounces@hamwan.org" target="_blank"><psdr-bounces@hamwan.org></a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jamie
              Hughes<br>
              <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 22, 2018 7:06 AM<br>
              <b>To:</b> Puget Sound Data Ring <a class="m_5986605966010508132moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:psdr@hamwan.org" target="_blank"><psdr@hamwan.org></a><br>
              <b>Subject:</b> [HamWAN PSDR] Radio World: Cause of Tiger
              Mountain Fire Disclosed<u></u><u></u></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Just
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              World: Cause of Tiger Mountain Fire Disclosed. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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