Is "www" desirable in web site URL?

[Carl Snow]

Why does it have to be one way or another?  Our server is aliased so it
will respond to either www.lib.purdue.edu or thorplus.lib.purdue.edu.

We use the latter for PR purposes but the former will work also.

--Carl Snow





At 5:41 AM -0700 9/13/96, you wrote:


> On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, John Kupersmith wrote:
> > I'm helping construct the URL for a new web site.
> > It will either be:
> >      http://www.co.washoe.nv.us
> > or:
> >      http://co.washoe.nv.us
>
> Several people already responded that having the "www." on the front is a
> "good thing" because it is somewhat expected.  Others have commented that it
> is a good idea to make your "www.name.org" address an "alias" for another
> machine, which will let you move your web server around if you need too; this
> is also a good idea.
>
> I just want to add one comment about the format of your URL.  By the
> standard, there should be a trailing slash at the end of your URL.  Such as:
>
>   http://www.co.washoe.nv.us/
>
> or
>
>   http://co.washoe.nv.us/
>
> This is a comment from the purist (defined in Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
> as "one who adheres strictly and often excessively to a tradition", except
> replace "tradition" with "standard") point of view, but it is the "correct"
> way to format a URL for the top level of a site.  Fortunately, (or
> unfortunately from a purist's point of view) we have modern browsers which
> correct for this oversight.
>
>
> Peter
> --
> Peter Murray, Library Systems Manager                      pem at po.cwru.edu
> Library Information Technologies         http://www.cwru.edu/home/pem.html
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