In agreement with bm. The domain (eg google.com) handles many services and the www kind of says which service it is using (www, mail, smpt, pop, ftp...). Of course, as www traffic is probably the most common kind, servers will most likely know what is expected, and act accordingly. Many servers are configured to redirect traffic from (eg) google.com to www.google.com. One …

I came across a site that doesn't work when I type in the address with the "www." prefix. The following is an example: if you click on this link, it won't take you to any site, but rather display an

In (a little) more detail What does [wwws] mean? Nothing. It is only a convention. The prefix www is non-functional, it has no effect on the protocol used. However I believe Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World-Wide-Web, used it as a naming convention to indicate an HTTP server (i.e. a World Wide Web server). This helped to distinguish the server name from servers for other …

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Mar 26, 2021 · I use Chrome for browsing the web almost all the time Starting from a few days ago I have had the page http://www.gstatic.com/generate_204 open up in a new browser ...

Jul 10, 2017 · this is quite new to me so I hope it is clear what I try to ask. On my windows 10 pro I have installed a small application which runs as a webserver on port 8080. I can access it using localhost:8...

No help to me. An installer has managed to overwrite the google:baseURL variable with a link to feed.sonic-search.com, which redirects to search.snapdo.com. Trying to find how I can reset google:baseURL to the correct value. The Google search engine has exactly the text you provide but gets the bad link injected.

Feb 8, 2017 · The router is a TP-LINK TD-W8951ND. I tried to access the configuration page through Wi-Fi and through wired connection both didn't work. I tried restarting (the problem has been persisting for a ...

I see some sites with urls such as www8.example.com or www6.example.com, but I don't know what www8 or www6 mean. Does anyone know what this means and if it's different from a URL that just has www?

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