The support of Internet Explorer with underscore is not the same as for browsers like firefox and chrome.
Take the following address: http://pc02_test.domain.com/webapp
When you now want to store some information in the cookie, this goes wrong. So the advise is do not use underscores!
More information:
- http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/iewebdevelopment/thread/8e876e9e-b223-4f84-a5d1-1eda2c2bbdf4
- http://www.enhanceie.com/ie/bugs.asp (IE005)
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909264
The Morning Brew #3927
2 days ago
A hyphen is also better for your Google score. Underscores are ignored and hyphens are treated as word separators.
ReplyDelete@mqaa: you are completly correct. But the problem with the underscore in the DNS name is that the cookie information is not stored in Internet Explorer.
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