[H-GEN] dotless ip notation

[Mark Suter]

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Opec,

> Yeah this will only work for IE. I think they *might* have fixed this problem. Usually spammers
> uses this to hide thier IP address (in the vain hope that you won't be able to figured out who to complain to).

This problem with IE was that it treated such URLs as being
"local" for the purposes of the security settings.

You will find that almost all unix hosts will resolve the
integers as ips, for example, to ping student.uq.edu.au:

    % ping -c 1 2187723284

> There is a formula on how to produce this IP address but I can't find the site now :( Maybe someone else on this list 
> know where to find it 

The following two perl scripts are pipes that convert between
intger and the dotted quad format.

perl -ne 'my ($a, $b, $c, $d) = split(/\./o, $_); print $a * 0x01000000 + $b * 0x00010000 + $c * 0x00000100 + $d, "\n";'
perl -ne 'print join(".", ($_ & 0xff000000) >> 24, ($_ & 0x00ff0000) >> 16, ($_ & 0x0000ff00) >>  8, ($_ & 0x000000ff)), "\n";'

Yours sincerely,

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