274333 - Browsing without typing www. before the address name

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[macster_smart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Firefox 1 Final

I hate to type www. every time I wana browse a website, Firefox should put 
automatically www. before the address that we type in address bar so we can 
type only the address name without the www. every time we wana browse a website.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
I did see that Firefox opens many websites without being necesary to type www. 
before the address name, but I don't know if it works with every address, but 
it should work with every address, because it is very anoyng to type www every 
time you wana browse a website.
Actual Results:  
Browsing should work for every site without typing www. before the address name

Expected Results:  
Browsing should work for every site without typing www. before the address name

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

If you can go to a website without typing 'www.' in front (f.i. example.com),
that's because the adminstrator has created a 'CNAME' DNS-record that acts as an
alias that redirects the DNS-lookup to another DNS-record (here: example.com
points to www.example.com). It's not something that the browser did by itself.

But the browser can also rewrite the URL and try again. I guess this is what you
mean ? Then this is related to bug 219390.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

If the domain without the www. doesn't exist, Firefox does try adding the www.
See bug 66183.