We have multiple working hostnames, eg. http://www.perlmonks.org, http://perlmonks.org, http://www.perlmonks.com, http://perlmonks.com, http://www.perlmonks.net. Like ikegami said above, all of those resolve to the same set of ip addresses. They are the same, but there's still some advantage to having multiple of them. One advantage is that this way one can have different login cookies for the different domains. The other is that this way we can make people use relative links when they link to a writeup from another, eg. use one of [id://149675] or [href://?node=149675] or <a href="?node=149675">text</a> but not one of [http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=149675] or <a href="http://perlmonks.com/?node=149675">text</a>. This will be very useful for people using alternate interfaces to perlmonks, so internal links keep them on the same interface, though such interfaces aren't used much today. The way perlmonks has lots of xml feeds means that not only gods, but even ordinary users could write alternate interfaces to perlmonks, such as the now defunct http://prlmnks.org. (There are some technical problems, eg. you aren't allowed to vote, and you can't currently ask about the approved and front-paged information of nodes using the xml interface, but these are just details.)

In reply to Re: www.perlmonks.org vs. perlmonks.org by ambrus
in thread www.perlmonks.org vs. perlmonks.org by szabgab

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