What's the difference between http:// and www.?

Question

Sometimes I enter http infront of a website and sometimes I have to use www. infront of a website, what is the difference?

Answer 1

the letters you type. duh!

ok seriously heres a link that might help

if your going to a wesite. you always have http in front.
hyper text transfer protocol
its the type of connection your looking at.
if your looking in directories online or downloading a file, then it will problably be ftp:
file transfer protocol

www. was created by the world wide web (www get it?) consortium
it used to be nesaccary to use, but nowdays it is not. It is truelly unimportant.

some sites dont have it. then you need to make sure you type http://site.com
because your browser will attempt the standard http://www for you and if the site doesnt have www in its name then you will get the wrong site

this might help too.
http://www.washington.edu/computing/faqs/html/www.url.definition

Answer 2

Actually your question is a little bit like asking, What is the diffreence between a paperclip and a dog.

www is essentially a hostname (computer name) that has become something of commonplace practice to use as the primary website name for a given domain. An internet hostname need not begin with www, and can begin with just about anything.

http:// is how you define the protocol to use when attaching to a server using your web browser, with the intention of using the http protocol, which is the standard web content delivery protocol. There are several other protocols supported by most web browsers such as: https (secure http), ftp (File Transfer Protocol), file (local file system access) and others. If you wanted to use ftp for example, you would do ftp://somehost.somedomain.com.

Internet Explorer has tried to become too clever with automatically recognizing what you are trying to do without specifying the protocol. If you do not specify the protocol with http:// or ftp:// you can get some interesting results if a website is addressed: ftp.somedomain.com or an ftp site is addressed www.somedomain.com. Since those naming conventions are NOT defined standards, they can not be counted on to deliver on the protocol for which they appear to be using.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

To make it simple.

The prefix (Http or Ftp) tells the browser what that page is made for and how to read it.

Http (Hyper-Text Transport Protocol) denotes that the page you are viewing is a website.

The alternative to this is Ftp (File Transfer Protocol) which tells you that it is a site dedicated for file storage and transfer.


WWW just stands for World Wide Web and tells the browser that it is not an internal (within your network) site. That way the browser knows if the information on the site needs extra security precautions. That explanation is not entirely accurate, but I worded it that way for simplicity's sake.

Certain pages do not have the "www" in front of it, such as Email login sites. The "www" is not a required prefix.

Answer 5

http:// goes in front of www. Look at the address for Yahoo! Answers. It says http:// first then it says answers.yahoo.com(it says answers instead of www. because some sites have different www.s).

Answer 6

and yet another awnser for the book (although i allreddy voted for an awnser above me ill add my two cents in anyway)

http 80
https 444
ftp 21
tftp 69

www simply refers to the system that we use to interlink documents and websites online (point and click) www issnt really needed in the address anymore.

Answer 7

wen u do the www (like wright it out) it doesn't send u to the website wen u click it and wen u put http:// and type the website is will take you to the link if you click it well that's only for like writing it out on yahoo answers...do u get it well if i wanna give u a website to go to to search something the easiest thing to do is http://www.google.com and if i put www.google.com it won't take you to the site if u click it well good luck i hope i helped =]

Answer 8

http stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol
It tells the browser the address is for a web page.
www. is the hostname, the web site you want to visit

Answer 9

http: is the protocol. www. is the address for the world wide web. Some sites have https: which is a secure site. http:// is just the standard for every webpage.

Answer 10

from my experience nothing really but hay who knows