Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Re: "vim.org" fails to redirect to "www.vim.org" for Chrome users

* Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com> [140819 23:24]:
> When I enter "vim.org" into the address bar in Firefox, it
> successfully redirects to "www.vim.org". But when I enter "vim.org" in
> Chrome, no redirect happens. Maybe check the Apache config?
From what I see (dig vim.org vs. dig www.vim.org), vim.org does not hold
an A record, and it is Firefox, that just tries another URL. So it would
be the dns zone file that needs care, if this behaviour is wanted.

> Observed with Google Chrome 36 in Mac OS X and Ubuntu.
Greetings,
Markus

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