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Re: IP address pattern matching

• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 23:31:49 +0100 (BST)

>I'm not sure what you mean by "Doesn't cover all eventualities" - this 
>accepts all valid IP addresses, 

You may not care, but traditionally class B and A addresses were often
written as three or two numbers, the last being a 16- or 24-bit
number.  Many (all?)  browsers accept these forms, and also a single
32-bit number (sometimes used for deliberate obfuscation of spam
URIs).

-- Richard

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