Using squidGuard, we deny access to sites/links that are numeric IP links. e.g. http://123.123.123.123/something.html
Using gut-feeling, I can justify this for myself, but I am not an authority on the subject.
From time to time we get various complaints from our corp users, when they click a link and find out that they can not access to it.
They are ordinary users. They find it hard to understand why we disallow such accesses.
Similarly, when I write to webmasters of the site concerned, it does not automatically follow that the guy running the site understands that it is not a good idea to use numeric IP links.
So, my question is:
Could someone point me to a link which explains why it is a good thing to:
-- [for webmasters] not use numeric IP's in websites -- [for users] disallow access to numeric IP links
in layman's terms ;-)
Cheers, Jim
