On 2011/11/28 20:28, John Hardin wrote:
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Martin Gregorie wrote:
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 accept "192.168.7.2" as a valid IP when entered as a command line
argument or from a display screen as described above.
Did you try it with the proper octal conversions of the octets in that address?
00192 and 00168 are not valid octal numbers.
At my site:
lynx 2.8.7:
....
I'd try with known working URLs. The octal variant is also particularly
interesting.
{^_^}
