Bruce said:
Jon Danniken wrote ...
The address bar is a search bar. The / is irrelevant. Type in the same
numbers and just hit Enter and you will get the same result as you did
with / + Enter.
And if the OP doesn't want to do searching from the address bar, go to
and enable the option "Internet Options -> Advanced tab -> Search from
the Address bar -> Do not submit unknown addresses ...".
Perhaps the OP doesn't realize that host names (
www.intel.com) and
octet-parsed dotted-decimal IP addresses (192.168.1.1) are not the only
means of specifying a host. The octet-parsed IP address also has its
non-dotted form. It is, after all, a NUMBER.
IP addresses are binary numbers which *may* be presented in the dotted
decimal human-readable format. They are numbers with multiple
presentations. IP addresses can be presented as decimal values in 8-bit
parts (octets), hexadecimal, octal, or binary representations.
If you enter 10 decimal digits, or less (I'm assuming you're entering
decimal digits instead of any hex chars), IE will convert the IP
*number* you entered into the octet-parsed dotted-decimal form for that
same IP *number*.
Read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4 (assuming you aren't on IPv6 yet)
From the above last wiki article, "IPv4 uses 32-bit (four-byte)
addresses, which limits the address space to 4294967296 (2^32)
addresses." Well, it takes 10 decimal digits to encompass value of
4,294,967,296.
While IE8 can convert the 10 decimal digit number into the octet-parsed
dotted-decimal format (e.g., 1234567890 changes to 73.150.2.210), it
cannot handle more than a 10 decimal digit string. It won't convert
longer decimal numeric values of 11 to 39 decimal digits to an IPv6
address (that has values up to 2^128 bits long).
The trailing slash is irrelevant since whether it's a numeric IP address
or hostname, the URL syntax has the domain part terminated by the slash
character to differentiate it from the path, parameter, and anchor
section thereafter. Perhaps the OP should read up on URL syntax (e.g.,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Url).
