This is a valid ipv4 address

Re:This is a valid ipv4 address by ColinDabritz on Sunday October 20, 2013 @01:53PM (#6580724)

I recognize the other formats, but what format is "http://7393249866/"? It opens about:blank in chrome. How is it distinguished from the format above it?

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Re:This is a valid ipv4 address by agwa on Sunday October 20, 2013 @01:57PM (#6580745)

7393249866 mod 2^32 is 3098282570. I'm not convinced you can do that - although it works in Firefox, telnet and ping don't like it.

Edit: I highly doubt that this is standard behavior. I suspect that implementations that permit this are storing the number in a 32 bit integer and not checking to see that it was truncated.

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Re:This is a valid ipv4 address by nwh on Sunday October 20, 2013 @02:00PM (#6580760)

ping and other command line tools don't mind it for me on OSX, I don't know what the distinction between them would be though.

    $ ping 7393249866
    PING 7393249866 (184.172.10.74): 56 data bytes
    64 bytes from 184.172.10.74: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=259.042 ms

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Re:This is a valid ipv4 address by ColinDabritz on Sunday October 20, 2013 @02:06PM (#6580785)

It seems to work in Safari as well. I sort of understand the dword format, but why would this be useful, or a standard?

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