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Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

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Re: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

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Post by runjake »

trocadero wrote: post #173
parliament32 wrote: post #118

Considering a subdomain "trivial" is ridiculous... there's a difference between "www.example.com" and "example.com". Not only can they serve different sites, they can even have different DNS records! It seems that "m." is also considered a trivial subdomain. So when a user clicks a link to a "m.facebook.com" uri, they'll be confused why FB looks different when the browser reports it's on "facebook.com". I sincerely h…

>there's a difference between "www.example.com" and "example.com" Can you link to a site where these two are different?

Many orgs do this.

For example, with Active Directory, the DNS A record for your foo.com domain must resolve to your domain controllers. Your www.foo.com will resolve to a separate non-domain controller web server.

I think a lot of the commenters here are thinking solely in terms of commercial web services such as twitter.com and such, but there's so much more to the wider landscape.

Re: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

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Post by ryanlol »

makapuf wrote: post #183
Sidnicious wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Airbags have utility for 100% of motor vehicle users.

Well technically that includes planes and motocross also.

There are lots of airbag clothes for motorcyclists now. Apparently they work quite well.

Re: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

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Post by c0nsumer »

noinsight wrote: post #159
c0nsumer wrote: post #16

Have any of you with corporate-type proxies been seeing authentication issues? Since moving to Chrome 69 a number of our users are reporting repeated proxy auth prompts when this should normally be handled transparently by Kerberos.

Yes, Chrome 69 has a bug with Kerberos: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=872665

PS: This becomes REALLY fun if you use cnames to load balance proxies. Which use Kerberos.

Re: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

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Post by acdanger »

trocadero wrote: post #173
parliament32 wrote: post #118

Considering a subdomain "trivial" is ridiculous... there's a difference between "www.example.com" and "example.com". Not only can they serve different sites, they can even have different DNS records! It seems that "m." is also considered a trivial subdomain. So when a user clicks a link to a "m.facebook.com" uri, they'll be confused why FB looks different when the browser reports it's on "facebook.com". I sincerely h…

>there's a difference between "www.example.com" and "example.com" Can you link to a site where these two are different?

Many companies have their marketing site at www. and they're app at at, say, app. e.g. https://www.netlify.com/ vs https://app.netlify.com/

Re: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

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Post by jhki »

acdanger wrote: post #245
trocadero wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>there's a difference between "www.example.com" and "example.com" Can you link to a site where these two are different?

Many companies have their marketing site at www. and they're app at at, say, app. e.g. https://www.netlify.com/ vs https://app.netlify.com/

app. subdomains are not hidden

Re: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

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Post by mplewis »

acdanger wrote: post #245
trocadero wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>there's a difference between "www.example.com" and "example.com" Can you link to a site where these two are different?

Many companies have their marketing site at www. and they're app at at, say, app. e.g. https://www.netlify.com/ vs https://app.netlify.com/

That's www vs app, not www vs lack-of.

Re: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

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Post by cpeterso »

eam wrote: post #165
soared wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

99.9% of users have no idea what any of the words you just said mean. The change was made for them, not for you (the .1%)

Well, might as well drop then entire stuff after the domain.com/{dump all this out} (the file path) since non-techy people don't really care about it. All they care is about clicking links and navigating... /end sarcasm

Maybe the address bar UI will next hide query string parameters because they are an implementation detail? So Google News would be displayed as "news.google.com" instead of "news.google.com/?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en".

Re: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

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Post by blitmap »

Not in favor of Google deciding yet again how I want to browse/view the web. I've been extricating myself from Google services slowly, and I think it's time for Firefox again. Kind of arrogant to decide something like this for more than a billion users, and a step backward for those of us in IT who have a hard time getting the user to understand a visual difference in the address bar.

Re: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

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Post by type0 »

eam wrote: post #165
soared wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

99.9% of users have no idea what any of the words you just said mean. The change was made for them, not for you (the .1%)

Well, might as well drop then entire stuff after the domain.com/{dump all this out} (the file path) since non-techy people don't really care about it. All they care is about clicking links and navigating... /end sarcasm

From the business point of view that would make perfect sense. The user wont be able to remember the url and even second guess it so that would need the "help" of google, cause everyone knows that "google is your friend".
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