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Jeff_Unger_1067
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Dec 21, 2005

Strip leading www

We have some special needs customers who do not realize that you can reach a website without adding a leading "www" to the URL. So, in order to accomodate those folks, we have aliases setup in DNS. ...
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Joe_Pruitt's avatar
Joe_Pruitt
Dec 21, 2005
The only way to change the URL in the browser is with a redirect. The header replace, will modify the Host HTTP header that is sent to the backend server. So, the backend server will "think" that the browser requested your replaced domain while it really didn't.

 

 

So, if you need the URL in the browser to change to reflect the correct domain, you'll have to do a redirect.

 

 

-Joe