Re: www not needed?

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"QuadSquad" <QuadSquad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:CFFF6BFB-DA68-4711-8821-3F268928775C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have noticed something different in IE lately. If I want to go to a web
site, I don't need to type in www before the site and it comes up fine. For
example, if I type in bodyforlife.com it brings me to the web site that would
normally be http://www.bodyforlife.com. It also displays
http://bodyforlife.com in the address bar without the www. Is this a setting
of the auto search? This does this on both my desktop and laptop computer
but a colleague gets an error message when she tries this, we all are using
the same version of IE.
Thanks,
Arica


Depends entirely on how the site setup their server. If they default to a hostname, like "www", then you get redirected to that host (which may be the same host). They could just as well default to their "onlinestore", "support", or some other host on their domain. A site *should* default to "www" if the hostname is missing from the domain.

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