[thelist] Funny and frightening browser hack (fwd)

[Hendrik Mans]

Isaac wrote:
> Isn't there a further way to "write" the IP address as a straight sequence
> of numbers? If so, it'd be much easier to "hide" it in a query
> string as an
> id-type value. I'm pretty sure I remember reading something about
> that. ie,
> an IP could be represented as something like "238473763" (and it
> wasn't just
> the IP with the periods removed ;p).

Yep -- an IP address is just a series of 4 byte values. The number you saw
was the double word representation of those bytes (a double word is a number
stored in 4 bytes).

All that is very AFAIK of course. :)

Take care,
Hendrik