r/cpp • u/NooneAtAll3 • 5d ago
What's the difference between cppreference .com and .net?
My duckduckgo googling started giving me both, I don't understand the difference and don't remember which one is the original
They both look exactly the same
.com has en. at the beginning
.net doesn't have accounts
.net has the picture, .com doesn't
Is it a typosquash, is one of them fake, what's going on?
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u/afforix 5d ago
It is explained on the About page: https://cppreference.net/about.html.
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u/TheThiefMaster C++latest fanatic (and game dev) 5d ago
Though it for some reason links back to itself when it tries to link to the original.
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u/SirClueless 3d ago
Maybe someone added something to rewrite all .com links to .net and it accidentally runs after adding that about page instead of before?
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u/meetingcpp Meeting C++ | C++ Evangelist 5d ago
cppreference.net is registered in China, when you lookup the domain with whois. the .com seems to be hosted in the US.
So maybe within Chinas Internet this acts as a mirror.
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u/rileyrgham 5d ago
2s Google : "cppreference.com is the official, original community-maintained wiki for C and C++ documentation, while cppreference.net is an unofficial mirror site.".
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u/BookkeeperThese5564 DNKpp 20h ago
Whichever the original one may be; am I the only one who has trouble finding anything via the embedded search field? It mostly does not find anything recently, but I remember that it was working for the last couple of years...
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u/thisismyfavoritename 5d ago
they resolve to the same IP for me
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u/jedwardsol const & 5d ago
.com is the original
.net is a mirror. Maybe set up when .com was having issues? I seem to remember the .com was down a lot last year.