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Nevin
Nevin

Reputation: 156

Why does a period get appended to my site's URL when I load the site in a browser?

When I navigate to my App Engine app (http://www.riabiz.com/) a period is sometimes (not always) appended after com, so if I enter http://www.riabiz.com/a/4153106 I get quickly redirected to http://www.riabiz.com./a/4153106/.

This appears to be causing a problem with asynchronous javascript requests to URLs that don't contain the period. I have no code within my webapp-based App Engine app that would do this as far as I know, but it is a relatively recent development (past coupe of months, and the app has been live for over a year).

I'm not even sure where to start, so any partial advice is welcome. Is it a DNS thing? AppEngine thing? My DNS host is BulkRegister.

Edit: I get this JavaScript error:

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://www.riabiz.com/rpc. Origin http://www.riabiz.com. is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 189

Answers (2)

thkala
thkala

Reputation: 86403

A dot at the end of a host or domain name indicates that the name is a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN), rather than a relative name. It removes any ambiguity during any DNS queries. It is perfectly legal and your application should be able to handle it.

Upvotes: 1

ismail
ismail

Reputation: 47662

This seems to be a DNS thing, not a problem though, read this document for more information.

Upvotes: 0

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