From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1939 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl 0.9.5 release and new website Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 23:35:09 -0400 Message-ID: <20120916033509.GC254@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20120915081227.GD27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20120915135340.GI9428@port70.net> <50548B11.7060300@gentoo.org> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347767035 10333 80.91.229.3 (16 Sep 2012 03:43:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 03:43:55 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1940-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Sep 16 05:43:57 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TD5ly-0004nn-6r for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2012 05:43:54 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 9647 invoked by uid 550); 16 Sep 2012 03:43:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 9636 invoked from network); 16 Sep 2012 03:43:49 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50548B11.7060300@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1939 Archived-At: On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 04:05:05PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 09/15/2012 03:53 PM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > > i would http redirect the non 'www.' prefixed host > > to the 'www.' prefixed one > > please do the opposite, cargo culting www is terrible. I disagree on this one. If the domain _IS_ a website (think facebook.com, etc.) then I agree it's perfectly reasonable, and probably aesthetically nicer, to have the base domain without www be the primary name for the website. But if the domain corresponds to some project, organization, brand, product, etc. that's not a website itself, then www.[whatever].[tld] serves to identify it as "the _webserver_ for [whatever]", alongside other possible servers like the git server, the ftp server, etc. The idea of using different domain names for each of them is that you can transparently move them to different machines without breaking urls. Using a redirecting webserver on the base domain name doesn't really conflict with this principle since it's not something that would need to be moved; it's a very low-load service that's only hit when someone lazy types the url by hand... Rich