[lug] Re: CLUE: -- very strange url

[Dale Harris]

On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 05:12:16PM -0800, bill ehlert elucidated:
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> does anybody understand how it's possible for a
> url such as this to work???
> 
> http://%31%32%31%35%30%39%31%36%33%37@3626114327/%6C%6F%73%65%77%65%69%67%68%74



Yeah, the %## is just hexadecimal ASCII.  You'll see it quite often in a URL 
when somebody decides to use a space, instead of " " you'll see %20.  

http://foo.org/screw%20the%20unix%20users.html

The number 3626114327 is actually 0xD8221D17, which becomes 216.34.29.23. 
First time I ever see a strictly decimal representation of an address, didn't
know the web browser was smart enought to figure that out.

so that is actually:

http://1215091637@216.34.29.23/loseweight


Course the /loseweight part is busted.


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