> I received in my mailbox an unwanted porn spam letter. When I held the
> cursor over the link, the address was as follows :
>
> http://%3362@3743%393%2F%6F%79%65%73
>
> and it didn't connect, which is unfortunate because I wanted to write a
> little note to the webmaster...
>
> Is this an IP spoof in action? I thought the 951514199foobar.akamai.com
> was weird enough but this is not an octet or anything remotely
> resembling an addresse. Would anyone know what exactly that was? Is it
> supposed to be a working link or what?
>Running this through a decoder for URL encoded strings you get:
>
>http://362@374393/oyes
>
>Looks like the @ has screwed the octet site address up, otherwise I guess
>you would have ended up in the /oyes directory on that server. The format
>here doesn't appear to match the http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for
>passing a name and password in the URL to get around the basic
>authentication dialog.
actually it matches the format http://user:password@ipaddress
where ip address is 374393, which in quad-dots is 0.5.182.121 (because
121+256*182+256*256*5 = 374393. however, 0.5.182.121 is a "reserved"
address.
so you should get nothing by trying to get the URL above.
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