This is some kind of a philosophical problem for me, and I have been thinking about this for months. It's not precisely about wwwoffle, but the practical consequences show up when using wwwoffle, so I post it here:
If my domain is foo.org should I put my webserver on www.foo.org or just on foo.org ? Most people do it on both, but that is a really bad idea, becasue everything would need to be cached twice, also on all transparent proxies, company squids and home wwwoffle (I now you can do Alias, but why should I make users trouble). Also things like google page rank get dissipated, since some links point to one version and some to the other. The webserver on one of them should just do a permanent redirect to the other, and that's what some do, like debian.org -> www.debian.org or gnu.org -> www.gnu.org But some do it the other way, like: www.nongnu.org -> nongnu.org or www.openrbl.org -> openrbl.org Which way is more philosophically correct, and which should be used? The downfall of using www. prefix is that URL's get longer. But on the other hand sometimes we provide additional special services on other prefixes, and it seems logical that the main site should have some prefix too, as not to have a different number of dots in the hostname as the other services. What I mean is that Debian provides: www.debian.org main site packages.debian.org pages of specific packages bugs.debian.org bug reports lists.debian.org mailing list archives So it seems logical that the main site should use www. while not to add www. to other hostnames which the organization provides. This also makes it enough in the Purge section to write (as I don't ever want any of debian pages to purge): <http://*.debian.org/*> age = -1 If they would use http://debian.org for their main site, and http://something.debian.org for others, we would have to put two lines: <http://debian.org/*> age = -1 <http://*.debian.org/*> age = -1 What do you think about this? -- Miernik _________________________ xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________/__ tel: +48888299997 __/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.miernik.ctnet.pl/
