Personally I'm with Freso - I see no point in the www and feel that the site should silently drop it if a user inserts it (much like
And, for what it's worth, your beloved leader suggests tolerance, not blanket redirecting (though, yes, they refer to their "ideal" situation as a redirect): To that end, we make the modest proposal that website makers configure their main sites to be accessible by domain.com as well as www.domain.com. ... However, any site that takes in traffic one way or the other on both the www host and the bare domain are acceptable here. ... We understand that this sort of configuration is not appropriate for every website. For example, a domain may require the webserver to be stored on a different machine than the domain root server. ... In fact, several websites choose to forward traffic from domain.com to www.domain.com for branding reasons and that's just fine with us. As long as they don't simply block all HTTP traffic on the bare domain name, they're OK in our book. -- Morbus Iff ( the power of grayskull compels you! ) Technical: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus