On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:43:00 +0100 Thierry Besancon wrote: > On 2011-11-27 13:26:43, jdow wrote: > > Which browser(s) treat addresses of the form > > 178.000235.0000150.000372 as actual addresses? That seems like a > > serious fault in the browsers. > > According to C standards, a number beginning with a 0 is an base 8 > number. > > So 000235 is legal. It means 157 in decimal. > So 000150 is legal. It means 104 in decimal. > So 000372 is legal. It means 250 in decimal. > > So this is address 178.157.104.250 which is a legal IP address. > > So there is no serious fault. Just your ignorance of C programming ;-)
The doesn't have anything to do with C programming. The implication is that a browser might ignore leading zeros when parsing an IP address.
