can't override history in Firefox - a URL issue? 1

[jlockley]

This may be in the wrong place. the blog site

http://culinarypromiscuity.com

(It's not a porn site, really)
keeps being transformed to

http://www.culinarypromiscuity.com.

The real answer has to lie outside the browser, which I have been able to make work a few times by deleting all histroy - this is not an issue with other sites.

Thank you if you know what to do. Domain host is Godaddy, and I have not been able to forward it.

 

[feherke]

Hi

keeps being transformed

You will have to give us some details relating this :
[ul]
[li]Does it happen on all kind of actions ( typing in the location bar, clicking a link, opening a bookmark ) ?[/li]
[li]Does it happen with other browsers too ?[/li]
[li]Any relevant HTTP header is received ?[/li]
[/ul]
For now I tend to blame a browser extension in your FireFox.


Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[goombawaho]

After you figure out why it's happening, my question would be "why do you CARE?" What is the significance of the difference.

 

[jlockley]

Feherke, Thank you for responding.

Answers:
1) Yes, but. I have not tried a bookmark, but otherwise Mozilla inserts the "www" no matter how I work with it. There has been some change by the hosting group, but on the whole the behavior continues, even with history and caches cleared. At at least on instance it resolved correctly from a link, and it resolves correctly accessing the page from wp-admin.
2) Yes/No I use only IE and Firefox. It does not occur in IE----but: I get the same results from my home office desktop, my laptop, and my office office desktop, all with the newest Firefox update.
3) Oddly no. The non foolish blog,

http://chefspro.com

resolves correctly and evenconverts

http://www.chefspro.com

to

http://chefspro.com.

(surely cache, as someone on another unit was not able to achieve the same results)

I can work around the issue simply by using IE, of course, but that is not the issue. I have a few truly interesting people in the food and restaurant industry lined up to play with this, so it would be a pity if other visitors experience the same issue.

It seems to me that the best thing to do would either be to figure out the way to get the site to resolve directly to

http://www (not

blog behavior) or to devise some kind of forwarding strategy, so that

http://www auto-forwards

to http:

Any thoughts? Is this even the right forum? (the issue I see here is that Firefox update is bent on

http://www addresses,

or so it seems)

 

[jlockley]

GBW. I missed your question, so here again is the answer. I don't care much for my own use, although it is irritating to have to work around to open it.
I care that this seems to be happening with several Firefox installations, so it may be behavior of the updated browser, which would frustrate possible visitors.

 

[flyboytim]

To some folk the subject of "www" or not "www" is a matter of extreme passion.

At the cool end (Gas Mark ½. 250°F, 120°C)

http://no-www.org/

The medium range (Gas Mark 5, 375°F, 190°C)

http://www.yes-www.org/

and very hot (Gas Mark 10, 500°F, 260°C)

http://www.www.extra-www.org/

http://www.fxxxingcomputers.co.uk

 

[jlockley]

Thanks Flyboytim. I think you led me to a link to the answer I need to get

http://www.example

to redirect to

http://example

http://www.yes-www.org/redirection/

Will report back if it works.
If your medium range link is accurate, furthermore, the lack of a www. address impacts seo negatively, so one more reason to deal with it.

 

[goombawaho]

To some folk the subject of "www" or not "www" is a matter of extreme passion."

Wow, that's just too geeky for me, but I understand now.

 

[jlockley]

My concern is availability. Thanks to all of you for your help. I found a clearer answer to the question which allude to the seo impact.
My public are food professionals and their hangers on, a group of minimally technically savvy users, which makes my decision simple.

http://www.blog.web6.org/with-or-without-www-wordpress-blog/

 

[flyboytim]

My only difficulty with "

http://WWW."

is that it is 4 more characters to type (or more importantly, mistype) at the beginning of each manually entered address, either in a browser or when writing text containing the url. (Even more galling is "

http://www."etc.)

These are computers dammit - capable of interpreting and processing input streams, so those 4 (or 11) characters are an unnecessary waste of my dwindling time on this planet.

http://www.fxxxingcomputers.co.uk

 

[jlockley]

Agreed, and if it weren't for the problem of accessing the page combined with the SEO issue, I'd be happy with it. As a matter of fact, one of your links points out that

http://www removes

three letters of search terms from appearing in Google results. Unfortunately for the moment, I am going with it...