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If you just entered "reddit.com" into the address bar, it will automatically assume the www. in front. If there's another valid address such as "old.reddit.com," you need to enter the prefix in place of www or it will just go to www.reddit.com. π€¦ββοΈ
Websites that don't use the www subdomain and are valid without it won't have it get automatically added, but if it's not valid it will attempt to use the www subdomain and either give a 404 because it doesn't exist or will send you to a different site than you expect.
There was a time when you couldn't even have "reddit.com" work at all without actually typing the www. part. Just like when websites aren't secure and the automatic HTTPS needs to have the S removed so the page can load.
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?
That happens on the server side and how the owner of the site configured it. Some sites would redirect you to the www subdomain. If you go to "example.com", it (example.com) would redirect you to "www.example.com". The www part is not assumed and not automatically added by your browser as is the case "with http". And you can in fact have your server redirect connections to something other than the www subdomain or not redirect at all, you can also not have a www subdomain at all, but these are usually considered bad practices for public facing sites.
Edit: the opposite is also possible and happens some times, where "www.example.com" would just redirect to the main domain "example.com". This is usually done for backwards compatibility since a lot of people would assume www is necessary and type it out even if it doesn't exist.