Obscuring a URL

Here is a normal URL: http://www.ccsf.edu

Here is the usual numerical version, containing four decimal numbers: http://147.144.1.212

That number can be read as a four-digit number in base 256, like this:


147 * 256 * 256 * 256 = 2466250752
144 * 256 * 256       =    9437184
1   * 256             =        256
212                   =        212
                       -----------
Total:                  2475688404

Try these links:

http://2475688404 (works in IE but not Firefox)
http://0x93.0x90.0x01.0xd4 (works in IE and Firefox)
http://0x939001d4 (works in IE and Firefox)

There are more techniques shown on these pages:

http://www.pc-help.org/obscure.htm

Wikipedia Last modified 9-14-09