Strange URL Configuration: domain.com at 12345

[Kevin D. Quitt]

On 29 May 2000 21:05:54 -0700, "Lawrence Chan" <webmaster at montevino.com>
wrote:


>Hello,
>
>How would the resolver know to read only the stuff to the right  the @ sign
>and to ignore the rest of the URL?

It doesn't ignore it.  It passes it to the server.  URLs can contain a
username and password (IE doesn't do this right - are you surprised?).

And the host name can be hex, octal, or decimal.

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