Comments for Why doesn't accessing a site by its IP address work?

Comment from Jerry on 2010-02-09

2010-02-09T22:42:34Z

So what is the solution rather than being forced to type the entire hostname? Certainly there are some more numbers to direct to the requested page, right? I am guessing that it would be a "/" and extension provided by the webserver, and we would need that information to get it exactly right? But if that is so, isn't there a way to trace where we are actually going when we DO reach the page we first requested?

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Comment from Cornel on 2009-09-04

2009-09-04T08:08:33Z

@Henk: if you need to consistently access google.com try using (once is enough) www.google.com/ncr -it will remember that you want the .com site and won't redirect you to the localized page.

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Comment from Henk on 2009-09-01

2009-09-01T19:25:14Z

When I am trying to go to google.COM from my computer in the Netherlands I am redirected to google.NL. But using the IP address 74.125.127.100 brings me to google.COM. Sometimes the search results are a bit different so I have two bookmarks for Google.

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Comment from Majdi on 2009-08-29

2009-08-29T08:08:31Z

Thanks for this article.but i have quastion, what is the information that i need if i want to visit a website using the ip address?

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Comment from Wayne Urton on 2009-08-26

2009-08-26T23:22:49Z

Thanks for this article. It does explain several things that very well related to the IP address and the site name. I did download Dr TCP referenced in the related article listed, to tinker with the MTU settings, but unfortunately that did not help for this particular site. It seems like they must have something wrong on their end. Thanks again.

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Comment from Daniel Ullman on 2009-08-26

2009-08-26T16:23:14Z

Why not just use http://www.example.com/ .net or .org instead of purchasing somerandomservice?

I'm a control freak. (Also own http://reallybigbookstore.com too.)

27-Aug-2009

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