Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by ChuckMcM on Thursday September 06, 2018 @06:57PM (#17930351)

I think this is exactly right. All the letters of the name are important and cannot be left off. If people want to equate www.domain to domain they can put a 301 redirect on the www address but the browser has no business making assumptions about what the owner of the name space thinks are equivalent.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by JdeBP on Friday September 07, 2018 @06:25AM (#17933159)

Once upon a time, back in the middle 1990s when it was a major WWW browser, Netscape Navigator assumed that it could wrap domain names in URLs within "www." and ".com".

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by parliament32 on Friday September 07, 2018 @10:57AM (#17934727)

Interestingly, in Firefox, you can type a word into the URL bar and hit ctrl+enter to add "www" and "com". Shift+enter adds "www" and "net".

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