Every website used to be like “www.example.com”. Now I rarely encounter this “www.”. Why did it even exist and where has it gone? I also used to run into websites with legitimate domains, but “ww1.” instead of “www.”, these were probably phishing sites, but how did this actually work on top of legitimate domains?
No it won’t, it will go to “reddit.com”. Then Reddit will respond with a redirect to “www.reddit.com”. You can see that yourself in your browser’s developer console.
I never said the browser does it. I just said it was assumed and not necessary to be typed into the browser.
If you didn’t mean the browser, then I don’t see how this makes any sense:
What’s “it” here which is attempting something? It’s not the website since the address was not valid, and a website wouldn’t redirect you to a “www” if it wasn’t valid either and was going to result in a 404. So who’s “attempting” to unsuccessfully use the “www” subdomain?