Use .htaccess to redirect to http://www

Question

So I have the following code in my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

So in the browsers my domain appears like this: www.mysite.com . But I want to achieve the following: http://www.mysite.com . Currently the desired result works in IE only (tested in IE11). Chrome and FF will show the URL as www.mysite.com . Is it possible to have http://www.mysite.com in the address bar of all browsers?

Answer 1

Chrome will remove the http:// from the address bar (Probably for readability). I assume FF would do the same as may some others.