- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:12:35 -0500
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@akamai.com>
- CC: Ian King <iking@microsoft.com>, Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>, "Linda Bellitt (by way of Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>)" <linda.bellitt@hunterdouglas.com>, uri@w3.org
Mark Nottingham wrote: > > I find it good practice to redirect other hostnames' port 80 to > www, rather than CNAME it, so that search engines, caches and the > like don't have duplicates. Yup. That's what W3C does: $ curl -I http://w3.org/ HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:10:49 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_perl/1.23 Location: http://www.w3.org/ Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 > I.e., instead of having foo.com and www.foo.com return the same > resources, have all requests to foo.com redirected to the appropriate > part of www.foo.com, to reduce duplication. This is easy to configure > in most servers. I was trying to help somebody set up some redirects on their server a while back... they were using Microsoft IIS. I looked for HTTP redirect configuration options and couldn't find it. Does IIS support HTTP redirects? Anybody know? -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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