[ot] Re: [thelist] IP obfuscation

[j.d. welch]

On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 11:35 PM, rudy wrote:

> IP obfuscation is a pretty poor term for it, except if we're talking
> about
> Internet Explorer
> what is IP obfuscation, you ask?
> it is the conversion of the "dotted quad" notation for IP numbers, e.g.
>        http://216.119.117.224
> into a single integer, e.g.
>        http://3631707616/
> there's some javascript code for the conversion here --

hmm. i guess that's sort of clever, but what's the point of doing it?
is there a real value that i'm missing, or is it just "look at this
crazy thing i can do in javascript?"
i mean, it doesn't obscure the ip particularly well if you know what
you're doing anyway...

-jd

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