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Re: [xml-dev] IP address pattern matching
- From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 23:31:49 +0100 (BST)
>I'm not sure what you mean by "Doesn't cover all eventualities" - this
>accepts all valid IP addresses,
You may not care, but traditionally class B and A addresses were often
written as three or two numbers, the last being a 16- or 24-bit
number. Many (all?) browsers accept these forms, and also a single
32-bit number (sometimes used for deliberate obfuscation of spam
URIs).
-- Richard