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Re:Getting Ultra Violent about Ultraviolet by naner on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @03:58PM (#5333873)
The first instruction is to go to BBCUltraViolet.com. So I typed BBCUltraViolet.com into my browser as instructed, and immediately hit a “website not found” error. I tried some variations like .co.uk or bbc.ultraviolet.com, but no joy. So I Googled it. And discovered that the website doesn’t work without having www. appended to the front of the URL.

Not that this is your fault, but modern browsers will automatically append the www prefix when needed.

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Re:Getting Ultra Violent about Ultraviolet by duskwuff on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @04:01PM (#5333889)
No, that isn't true. Some sites will redirect from example.com to www.example.com, but if the user inputs example.com and that URL isn't set up, the browser won't recover from that. Try it for yourself if you don't believe me. :)
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Re:Getting Ultra Violent about Ultraviolet by naner on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @04:24PM (#5334069)
Ah. Works in FF but not in Chrome.
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