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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by Nadya on Thursday September 06, 2018 @04:20PM (#17929227)
>In the latter case, the different subdomains will still be shown (AFAIK).

http://www.pool.example.com displays as http://pool.example.com

Here's a gif: https://vgy.me/61I0DA.gif

For fun I'm going to set up a www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www record.

http://www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.example.com shows as example.com

E: I'll add it to my certs later but I did it: https://www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.aish...

E2: http://www.example.www.example.org shows up as example.example.org - this is fun.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by warent on Thursday September 06, 2018 @04:48PM (#17929426)
Re: E2 (http://www.example.www.example.org === example.example.org)

I just found the same thing. How exactly is this a feature? What an insane decision.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by zaarn on Friday September 07, 2018 @03:28AM (#17932489)
That is absolutely insane and someone should be fired and shamed for this. I didn't like just trimming a pure www. but trimming any www. in the hostname is just dumb behaviour.

How would I differentiate between loadbalancer1.www.intranet and loadbalancer1.intranet? THOSE ARE NOT THE SAME.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by da_chicken on Friday September 07, 2018 @08:38AM (#17933761)
Wow. You could do some pretty amazing spoofing with the www.com domain, then.
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