"~BD~" <~BD~@nomail.afraid.com> wrote in message
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> FromTheRafters wrote:
>> "Dustin"<bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9F31D2724E994HHI2948AJD832@no...
>>> G. Morgan<G_Morgan@easy.com> wrote in
>>> news:jkl537puukrjda1tsqi8fu0pl3qnbvkvde@Osama-is-dead.net:
>>>
>>>> ~BD~ wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> To *GET* the text file, one *has* to visit a URL.
>>>>
>>>> Or use the command line 'wget' in a sandbox, for the paranoid.
>>>
>>> Or use the sites known IP and forget the "URL" altogether...
>>
>> Isn't it still a URL even if you use the numerical address
>> instead of a name to look up? )
>
> Not according to this item!
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform...rce_Identifier

What part of that item says that a numerical address disqualifies the string as
being a URL?

> I learn a lot from being here on SE!

Here's your chance to teach *me* something.

Why isn't http://88.198.244.100/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier a URL?

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