[wp-hackers] Thoughts on Dict.

Leon Blackwell leon at lostrealm.com
Mon Mar 28 02:24:04 GMT 2005


On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 11:10:31AM -0500, Stewart Ugelow wrote:
> "We know about that and it was intentional.  'dict.org' is for RFC 2229 DICT
> protocol service.  'www.dict.org' is for HTTP service. These used to be on
> the same machine but they aren't at the moment. There is nothing that says
> that http://domain/ has to be equivalent to http://www.domain/, although it
> is certainly common."
> --Stewart

Can I suggest that they put a lightweight HTTP daemon on that box and
make it redirect to www.dict.org, then?  There are plenty of people out
there that don't like the www convention ( http://no-www.org/ ).


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