On 24 Jun 2015 at 20:15, Peter Kasting <pkast...@google.com> wrote: > How Chrome's omnibox handles this (which I think is compliant with most > other places): > > If there are no dots in the middle of the expression, the number is > converted to powers-of-256 format and leading 0s are prepended to reach > four octets: > > 66 = 0.0.0.66 > 256 = 0.0.1.0 > > If there are dots in the middle, the number after the last dot is treated > as above, while the numbers before the dots must satisfy 0 <= n <= 255 and > are placed into the highest octets in order: > > 1.66 = 1.0.0.66 > 1.256 = 1.0.1.0 > 1.2.66 = 1.2.0.66 > 1.256.66 = invalid
This makes no sense at all. -- Cheers -- Tim