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Interesting IE8 behavior
Type any sequence of less than 10 numbers into the address bar in IE8, and
hit "/ + ENTER". What in the heck is the function of this? Jon |
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Interesting IE8 behavior
"Jon Danniken" wrote in message ... Type any sequence of less than 10 numbers into the address bar in IE8, and hit "/ + ENTER". What in the heck is the function of this? Jon The address bar is a search bar. The / is irrelevant. Type in the same numbers and just hit Enter and you will get the same result as you did with / + Enter. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Oct. 1, 2004 ~ Sept. 30, 2010 Imperial Beach, CA |
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Interesting IE8 behavior
Bruce Hagen wrote:
"Jon Danniken" wrote in message ... Type any sequence of less than 10 numbers into the address bar in IE8, and hit "/ + ENTER". What in the heck is the function of this? Jon The address bar is a search bar. The / is irrelevant. Type in the same numbers and just hit Enter and you will get the same result as you did with / + Enter. Okay, point taken, but what is the function of this, ie, what is the string of numbers being translated into? Jon |
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Interesting IE8 behavior
Bruce Hagen wrote:
Jon Danniken wrote ... Type any sequence of less than 10 numbers into the address bar in IE8, and hit "/ + ENTER". What in the heck is the function of this? The address bar is a search bar. The / is irrelevant. Type in the same numbers and just hit Enter and you will get the same result as you did with / + Enter. And if the OP doesn't want to do searching from the address bar, go to and enable the option "Internet Options - Advanced tab - Search from the Address bar - Do not submit unknown addresses ...". Perhaps the OP doesn't realize that host names (www.intel.com) and octet-parsed dotted-decimal IP addresses (192.168.1.1) are not the only means of specifying a host. The octet-parsed IP address also has its non-dotted form. It is, after all, a NUMBER. IP addresses are binary numbers which *may* be presented in the dotted decimal human-readable format. They are numbers with multiple presentations. IP addresses can be presented as decimal values in 8-bit parts (octets), hexadecimal, octal, or binary representations. If you enter 10 decimal digits, or less (I'm assuming you're entering decimal digits instead of any hex chars), IE will convert the IP *number* you entered into the octet-parsed dotted-decimal form for that same IP *number*. Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4 (assuming you aren't on IPv6 yet) From the above last wiki article, "IPv4 uses 32-bit (four-byte) addresses, which limits the address space to 4294967296 (2^32) addresses." Well, it takes 10 decimal digits to encompass value of 4,294,967,296. While IE8 can convert the 10 decimal digit number into the octet-parsed dotted-decimal format (e.g., 1234567890 changes to 73.150.2.210), it cannot handle more than a 10 decimal digit string. It won't convert longer decimal numeric values of 11 to 39 decimal digits to an IPv6 address (that has values up to 2^128 bits long). The trailing slash is irrelevant since whether it's a numeric IP address or hostname, the URL syntax has the domain part terminated by the slash character to differentiate it from the path, parameter, and anchor section thereafter. Perhaps the OP should read up on URL syntax (e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Url). |
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Interesting IE8 behavior
"Jon Danniken" wrote in message ... Bruce Hagen wrote: "Jon Danniken" wrote in message ... Type any sequence of less than 10 numbers into the address bar in IE8, and hit "/ + ENTER". What in the heck is the function of this? Jon The address bar is a search bar. The / is irrelevant. Type in the same numbers and just hit Enter and you will get the same result as you did with / + Enter. Okay, point taken, but what is the function of this, ie, what is the string of numbers being translated into? Jon Pretty much the same as any search. Google is my search engine. I just typed in 2289 and you will see from this result that every search result had 2289 in it somewhere. http://www.google.com/search?q=2289&...I7GGHP_enUS449 -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Oct. 1, 2004 ~ Sept. 30, 2010 Imperial Beach, CA |
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Interesting IE8 behavior
VanguardLH wrote:
And if the OP doesn't want to do searching from the address bar, go to and enable the option "Internet Options - Advanced tab - Search from the Address bar - Do not submit unknown addresses ...". Perhaps the OP doesn't realize that host names (www.intel.com) and octet-parsed dotted-decimal IP addresses (192.168.1.1) are not the only means of specifying a host. The octet-parsed IP address also has its non-dotted form. It is, after all, a NUMBER. IP addresses are binary numbers which *may* be presented in the dotted decimal human-readable format. They are numbers with multiple presentations. IP addresses can be presented as decimal values in 8-bit parts (octets), hexadecimal, octal, or binary representations. If you enter 10 decimal digits, or less (I'm assuming you're entering decimal digits instead of any hex chars), IE will convert the IP *number* you entered into the octet-parsed dotted-decimal form for that same IP *number*. Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4 (assuming you aren't on IPv6 yet) From the above last wiki article, "IPv4 uses 32-bit (four-byte) addresses, which limits the address space to 4294967296 (2^32) addresses." Well, it takes 10 decimal digits to encompass value of 4,294,967,296. Ah, okay, it's doing decimel into octet parsed. I tried 255 and got 0.0.0.255. 256 gives me 0.0.1.0, and 257 gives me 0.0.1.1. Makes sense now. Jon |
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