Clarification regarding URL prefixes #15

brass75 commented 2026年03月15日 00:31:31 +01:00

While I understand that http://example.com is different than https://example.com, would it be equivalent to http://www.example.com?

While I understand that `http://example.com` is different than `https://example.com`, would it be equivalent to `http://www.example.com`?

robida commented 2026年03月16日 22:41:51 +01:00

I don't think they should be considered the same.

It seems that the www subdomain is becoming less and less common, so it's not hard to imagine a future were someone registers the username www on website.com and ends up with a www.website.com subdomain. So I think it's safer to not make the assumption that www.example.com == example.com.

Note that in your human.json you can vouch for both www.example.com and example.com.

I don't think they should be considered the same. It seems that the `www` subdomain is becoming less and less common, so it's not hard to imagine a future were someone registers the username `www` on `website.com` and ends up with a `www.website.com` subdomain. So I think it's safer to not make the assumption that `www.example.com == example.com`. Note that in your `human.json` you can vouch for both `www.example.com` and `example.com`.

brass75 commented 2026年03月16日 22:44:19 +01:00

@robida wrote in #15 (comment):

I don't think they should be considered the same.

It seems that the www subdomain is becoming less and less common, so it's not hard to imagine a future were someone registers the username www on website.com and ends up with a www.website.comsubdomain. So I think it's safer to not make the assumption thatwww.example.com == example.com`.

Note that in your human.json you can vouch for both www.example.com and example.com.

I can vouch for both, but I can't put both URLs in for myself. Both https://brassnet.biz/ and https://www.brassnet.biz will get to my website but will not be handled the same by the extension.

@robida wrote in https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json/issues/15#issuecomment-11729574: > I don't think they should be considered the same. > > It seems that the `www` subdomain is becoming less and less common, so it's not hard to imagine a future were someone registers the username `www` on `website.com and ends up with a `www.website.com`subdomain. So I think it's safer to not make the assumption that`www.example.com == example.com`. > > Note that in your `human.json` you can vouch for both `www.example.com` and `example.com`. I can vouch for both, but I can't put both URLs in for myself. Both `https://brassnet.biz/` and `https://www.brassnet.biz` will get to my website but will not be handled the same by the extension.