::shakes fist::
Is the DMV a .com or a .gov? Because it should be a dot gov — but Texas has stupidly put some of their government websites on dot coms.
It’s almost as if TLDs are completely arbitrary.
This is anarchy!
It’s almost as if ICANN doesn’t know what the fuck they’re doing anymore!
The secret is ICANN never has known what the fuck they are doing.
ICANNT
My state has dot org for some agencies, dot gov for some, and dot state dot (state) dot us.
It opens on my cell phone, but my desktop gives me a static image with no links.
When I try going to txdmv.gov, I don’t get the same server, but I do go to a machine that http-redirects my browser to www.txdmv.gov.
$ wget http://txdmv.gov/ --2024-04-10 17:01:26-- http://txdmv.gov/ Resolving txdmv.gov (txdmv.gov)... 168.44.227.138 Connecting to txdmv.gov (txdmv.gov)|168.44.227.138|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: https://www.txdmv.gov [following] --2024-04-10 17:01:26-- https://www.txdmv.gov/ Resolving www.txdmv.gov (www.txdmv.gov)... 3.222.136.66, 18.234.22.91 Connecting to www.txdmv.gov (www.txdmv.gov)|3.222.136.66|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: ‘index.html’ index.html [ <=> ] 203.91K 986KB/s in 0.2s 2024-04-10 17:01:27 (986 KB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [208802] $EDIT: Ah, apparently it redirects http://txdmv.gov/, but not https://txdmv.gov/.
considers
Based on @malloc@lemmy.world’s comment, maybe some browsers interpret a bare hostname without protocol specifier as an http address, and some as an https address.
Holy shit. This is really good to know… Thanks
maybe some browsers interpret a bare hostname without protocol specifier as an http address, and some as an https address.
And if you have a browser that does the former I would suggest finding a better one soon. The internet is moving away from unencrypted HTTP, a browser that doesn’t default to HTTPS nowadays is pretty strange.
While I do mostly agree with your statement, it’s incredibly annoying when I type in a local IP for my router or server and it automatically gets turned into https.
My favorite is sometimes when I’m on hold the announcements tell you to visit their website for faster service (would if I could have!). It reads out the URL to you like “double-you double-you double-you dot this stupid company dot com. Again, that’s double-you double-you double-you dot this stupid company dot com”
And if you actually type the “www”, you get redirected to the base domain without it.
I remember listening to radio commercials in the early days where it was:
Aitch-tee-tee-pee colon, forward slash, forward slash, double-you, double-you, double-you, dot nameofthecompany dot com, forward slash, tilde - you know, that squiggly line on the key to the left of the number one on your keyboard, you have to press shift for it - and then the word ‘customer’.
Painful, formerly repressed memory unlocked. Uh, thanks? lol
I do what I can.
If you find the relevant department and start harassing them on Twitter and other socials at least once a day they will eventually fix it. This has happened before with other departments and security issues. My record is eight days.
Thankfully I don’t live there, so it’s only my problem once.
So you’re whining because this one website makes you do what everyone’s in the 90s had to do so the time? Well everyone smart enough to realize that being tech savvy is a good idea. A lot of people I went to HS now have a Facebook account at most and it’s funny and pathetic.
