From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1945 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Barbato Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl 0.9.5 release and new website Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:04:08 +0200 Message-ID: <5055B228.3030004@gentoo.org> References: <20120915081227.GD27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20120915135340.GI9428@port70.net> <50548B11.7060300@gentoo.org> <20120916033509.GC254@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347793467 12793 80.91.229.3 (16 Sep 2012 11:04:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:04:27 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1946-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Sep 16 13:04:31 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 1TDCeL-0005kZ-0o for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:04:29 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 13746 invoked by uid 550); 16 Sep 2012 11:04:24 -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 13738 invoked from network); 16 Sep 2012 11:04:24 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:16.0) Gecko/20120905 Thunderbird/16.0 In-Reply-To: <20120916033509.GC254@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1945 Archived-At: On 9/16/12 5:35 AM, Rich Felker wrote: > 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... Fine for me then =) lu