Strange URL Configuration: domain.com at 12345

Thor Kottelin thor at anta.net
Mon May 29 13:47:32 UTC 2000



Ron Parker wrote:
> 
> I received spam today with a response url:
> 
>     http://www.rankingtothetop.com@1078106110/
> 
> Funny thing is, this works!  My questions:
> 
> 1. How does this work (i.e., I enter this into my browser and the page
> comes up).

"--- URL schemes that involve the direct use of an IP-based protocol to a
specified host on the Internet use a common syntax for the scheme-specific
data:

        //<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<url-path>" - RFC 1738

In your example, "http" is the scheme, "www.rankingtothetop.com" is the
user name, and "1078106110" is the host. The password and url-path are
empty, and so is the port, which defaults to 80.

> 2. How do I decipher this to find out what the IP is for this site (or
> real domain name) or ISP so I can complain about the spam.

1078106110 is decimal format for 64.66.151.254.

IMO the easiest way to convert is using ping, but just for fun:
64*256^3+66*256^2+151*256^1+254*256^0=1078106110

Thor

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