On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 18:35 -0800, jdow wrote:
> It is a way of obfuscating that's over the top and nobody has a way to
> get those oddball formulations easily from standard tools. They become
> an excellent way of leading people to strange addresses with strings
> that include ?ASFDikmedsfok3l1masdh sort of text following the index.html.
>
OK, here's a pair of data points: on my system 192.168.7.2 is the IP of
a web server on port 80.
I tried feeding "000192.000168.0007.0002" to Lynx and Opera as the sole
command line argument:
lynx 2.8.7 tried several variations on the input theme before giving up.
The permutations it tried show that it thought it was
dealing with a malformed host name.
opera 11.52 reported that this URL was garbage and quit, so it too
thought it was a host name rather than an IP address.
Both do exactly the same if this string is entered in the URL bar
(Opera) or when prompted after hitting G (go).
Both accept "192.168.7.2" as a valid IP when entered as a command line
argument or from a display screen as described above.
Martin
