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What!? It is indeed kinda annoying but since all of us have already get used to it, it's no big deal. However, now that it has been known that its unnecessary, why can't that be removed? Is that is to do?

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Viv

Apology Accepted! how I wish it can be removed. Is that possible?

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Well, we could do without the whole http://www … .com junk. Just let us type "google" and go to that site.

Justin, type "google" and then Ctrl + Enter in any browser address bar. Almost as easy.

Nitpick: Berners-Lee is the creator of the Web, not "the Internet."

since the beginning I've been annoyed with the whole "http://www." beginning of every URL.

now, think of all the electrons/energy/ink/etc wasted every time those 11 superfluous characters have been displayed/typed/printed over all these years.

somebody should do a graduate thesis to study the carbon footprint effect of this :)

Viv,
At this point, there are probably hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of code that account for those // .

As an example, if a program is written to handle a url and then chop off the http:// prefix for aesthetic reasons, if someone changed the standard, the code would break. Router manuafacturers have firmware that looks at traffic and might use the http:// as a protocol identifier. In c#, an absolute URI has the http:// formatting built into the structure of its understanding of what a URI is (and won't validate without it).

Making it optional at this point would likely cause millions of dollars of rework that is unnecessary.

I think we can give the creator of the web a break on this one :)

Though this message is a bit old, I have something rather important to add: the // is *not* superfluous. It denotes the beginning of a domain name.

For instance, when you type <a href="/directory"> in the HTML of a web page, it means that you want 'directory' in the root of your domain. Almost everyone types <a href="http://www.google.com"> to point to Google, but the thing that *is* superfluous in this case, is the protocol handler 'http:', as you are (most likely) already communicating using the HTTP protocol. You can also type <a href="//www.google.com"> to get the same thing and it saves you five bytes. ;)

Though this message is a bit old, I have something rather important to add: the // is *not* superfluous. It denotes the beginning of a domain name.

For instance, when you type <a href="/directory"> in the HTML of a web page, it means that you want 'directory' in the root of your domain. Almost everyone types <a href="http://www.google.com"> to point to Google, but the thing that *is* superfluous in this case, is the protocol handler 'http:', as you are (most likely) already communicating using the HTTP protocol. You can also type <a href="//www.google.com"> to get the same thing and it saves you five bytes. ;)