Subject: Re: Schemely graphing calculators?
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 27 Sep 2001 09:07:35 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <9ouq8n$n56kv$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Erik Naggum  <erik@naggum.net> wrote:
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| * Bruce Hoult <bruce@hoult.org>
| > Does that actually work on some OS and/or Browser?  It sure dosn't on 
| > either IE or Netscape on MacOS or Netscape on Linux.
| 
|   It is actually a valid IP address notation -- net.host.  It works fine
|   with Netscape 4.78 on Intel GNU/Debian Linux.  You will also find it in
|   the notation 127.1 and in the documentation for the old ARPAnet on net 10.
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Even more bizarre, this form works, too:

	http://202476203/~james/420.html

I have seen spammers and pop-up ad slime use this to try to obscure
the URL they're sending you to. For example, try this one [used by
a hoax reported in RISKS a while back]:

	http://www.cert.org:80@202476203/~james/420.html

[Yes, that's a valid URL.]


-Rob

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