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**tyme** · March 24, 2010, 12:40 PM

Also, as of last weekend it's "thefiringline.com" rather than "www.thefiringline.com". The version with the www. used to serve up the same pages without redirecting. Now it simply redirects to the same page on the no-www alias/hostname.

Again, it will redirect you, so it's not a big deal -- you'll get to the right page regardless -- but you'll save yourself about 2 RTTs of latency on the bookmarked page if you bookmark the version without the www.

By all appearances, where you are, 2 RTT would be at least 140ms. There might also be another dns lookup involved so it could be a lot longer than 140ms.

Subsequent pages would load just as fast since once you're on "thefiringline.com" all links will be no-www.

March 24, 2010, 12:40 PM	#4
tyme Staff Join Date: October 13, 2001 Posts: 3,355	Also, as of last weekend it's "thefiringline.com" rather than "www.thefiringline.com". The version with the www. used to serve up the same pages without redirecting. Now it simply redirects to the same page on the no-www alias/hostname. Again, it will redirect you, so it's not a big deal -- you'll get to the right page regardless -- but you'll save yourself about 2 RTTs of latency on the bookmarked page if you bookmark the version without the www. By all appearances, where you are, 2 RTT would be at least 140ms. There might also be another dns lookup involved so it could be a lot longer than 140ms. Subsequent pages would load just as fast since once you're on "thefiringline.com" all links will be no-www. __________________ “The egg hatched...” “...the egg hatched... and a hundred baby spiders came out...” (blade runner) “Who are you?” “A friend. I'm here to prevent you from making a mistake.” “You have no idea what I'm doing here, friend.” “In specific terms, no, but I swore an oath to protect the world...” (continuum) “It's a goal you won't understand until later. Your job is to make sure he doesn't achieve the goal.” (bsg)