Thanks. The other oddity was that starting with www.mozilla.com and
following the links there to the 3.5 Firefox download resulted in a
final link that did not contain the "en-US" prefix on "www".
Chuck Norcutt
Michael Collins wrote:
> On 7/23/09 6:05 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> ...any reference to anything as a valid prefix for "www".
>
> In fact "www" is just a convention to indicate a Web server hostname rather
> than some other type of server; it's in no way a requirement or part of a
> formal specification. There are no rules or limits governing the "prefix" to
> the bare domain name, other than limits on length and valid characters.
> Normally the full hostname string is passed to the receiving server, which
> will parse it as it sees fit.
>
> That said, I too am a bit surprised to see "en-US" in the hostname - it is
> unusual. A guess is that it is used to direct the request to a specific
> server (or one of a set of servers) based on language.
>
> Michael
>
>
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