RE: to www or not?

by Christopher Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>

Date:	Thu, 02 Nov 2000 09:52:18 +1100
To:	Brian Paulson <webmaster(at)chieftain.com>, Ellen Cotton <jellenc(at)ionet.net>, hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
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G'Day Ellen,

At 13:43 1/11/00 -0700, Brian Paulson wrote:
>the www is the host part of the url.
>Anatomy of a url
>
>http:// = Hypertext transfer protocol
>www = host name ( ie mail,www,pop)
>chieftain = domain
>.com/.net/.org = extension ( examples are all TLD's or Top Level Domains)
>
>I set up all of our sites to work with or with out the www. For instance my
>site http://www.chieftain.com

That explains part of your answer :-)

The reason for the host name is to allow a company to have multiple 
computers which use the same domain.  For example, a file server with FTP 
access may be ftp.chieftain.com, as opposed to the webserver at 
www.chieftain.com

Or - in the HWG's case: website at www.hwg.org and classes at interact.hwg.org

Chris

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