Wednesday, August 20, 2014

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

This issue has been raised and rejected (stubbornly and misguidedly, IMO) multiple times in the past:

A recent summary:


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com> wrote:
Could we please setup a basic Apache redirection, so that users trying to get to vim.org will be successfully redirected to www.vim.org?

This procedure is commonly used by many websites, and it helps a lot of users get to the home page more easily--they shouldn't have to see 404 for the domain!

An example Apache configuration that would quickly accomplish this:


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 5:54 AM, John Beckett <johnb.beckett@gmail.com> wrote:
Andrew Pennebaker wrote:
> 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.

That has been discussed a couple of times in the past. The
person who provides the DNS for Vim does so in an extremely
reliable and efficient manner, so what they say goes. The issue
is that vim.org is a domain and should not be expected to work
in a browser. A browser has to connect to a host (www.vim.org).

Some browsers try adding "www." when plain "vim.org" does not
resolve to a host name, so vim.org works in some browsers.

John


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