If www.perlmonks.org and perlmonks.org cannot share the same cookie, even though one is a CNAME for the other and they are in the same domain, this strikes me as either a browser bug or possibly a design flaw in the cookie specification. Many systems have multiple machine names and yet should be considered the same system. I would understand if they were in different domains (e.g., www.foo.org and cgi.bar.org), but such is not the case.

However, doesn't Apache have a feature that will fix this, by rewriting the URI to have a certain machine name? (I'm thinking something about canonical names, but my memory is a little hazy on the details.) Or am I confused about that?

As far as the .com and .net domains... I'd be interested in hearing the reasoning behind why those TLDs don't just do a refresh/redirect to the .org domain. I can sort-of understand the reasoning behind registering perlmonks.com, because of people who get all their ideas about the internet from television (do such people read sites like perlmonks, though?), but I have difficulty believing *anyone* would think perlmonks would belong in the .net TLD, and it seems to me that even given that you want people who type in those domains to get to the right place, a refresh would accomplish that, and still land everyone's URIs in the same TLD, which would have more benefits than just making absolute links work better. What am I missing? 

$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}}
split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$ ;->();print$/

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In reply to Re: Warn people who have perlmonks in a URL? by jonadab
in thread Warn people who have perlmonks in a URL? by tilly

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