19 Mar
1999
19 Mar
'99
1:03 a.m.
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Alex French wrote:
I'm not so sure they're a bad artifact though. If you start from the premise that you should be allowed to enter an IP address as a URL, and consider that in fact an IP address is defined as an unsigned 32-bit integer, then it sort of makes sense to allow it. After all, dotted quad notation was simply an easier way to write the 32-bit integer...
OTOH, why should it support the non-doted decimal representation of the IP address. I'd like to see support for hex, octal, and binary at minimum. Decimal is not as important to computers.
Tom