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Re: [xml-dev] IP address pattern matching
- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 00:44:29 +0200
* Richard Tobin wrote:
>>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).
However, such URIs are invalid and one should not rely on forgiving
browsers. But this is offtopic here...
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