IE does not connect to some pages that contain www in the url. When i delete the http://www. the pages will load. Why is this happenning and what can i do to fix it?
Some pages don’t use www & only connect that way. Some use it.It depends on who wrote the address for it.
Could you give an example of some pages you try to load with the http://www.?
It has more to do with how those domains have been set up in DNS and nothing to do with the web browser you’re using. I doubt IE 5.5 practices URL discrimination.
Grrr… in my OP the problem is solved when i delete (www.) not http://www. This MB added the (http://)…i can load http://betazine.com but not http://www.betazine.com/---The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings. —but others tell me they can load www.betazine .com …i have same problem with the Microsoft site…the links are all (www) but i can’t load the pages unless i remove the (www) manually. same with http://www.gamecenter.com/ seems to me this started when i installed a recent IE update. 5.5 i think.
The World Wide Web is not synonymous with the internet. If the url is part of the World Wide Web, it will have the http://www. at the beginning. If it is not, it will not. All the web addresses begin with http:// (hypersomething transfer protocol). So, if you don’t type in http://www. the computer will send you to the site which begins http://. If you type in http://www., the computer will send you to the site which begins http:www. If the address isn’t part of the WWW, that’s an incorrect address and you can’t connect. If the address is part of the WWW and you don’t type that in, that’s also incorrect and you can’t connect.
I have IE 5.5 on Win98 with all the latest updates, and I can get to both http://www.betazine.com/ and http://www.gamecenter.com/. Try clearing your cache and restarting IE. Or try repairing IE: In the Control Panel, choose Add/Remove Programs. Select Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and Internet Tools, then click on the Add/Remove button. Select Repair Internet Explorer. Maybe that’ll work. If not, then try reinstalling.
Not all URLs have “www” in the name. The first part of the address often indicates the web server of the organisation; the vast majority are named “www” by convention, but it’s not required. Hence, for example, the URL here is http://boards.straightdope.com