From: "Dustin" <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com>

> "FromTheRafters" <erratic.howard@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:j17351$f14$1@dont-email.me:
>
>> "Dustin" <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9F3492CC0679AHHI2948AJD832@no...
>>> "FromTheRafters" <erratic.howard@gmail.com> wrote in
>>> news:j0vo66$mt0$1 @dont-email.me:
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>>>> "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? )
>>>
>>> Nope. URL is a name, IP is an.. You guessed it, IP! URL requires
>>> DNS help, actual IP doesn't.
>>
>> This time, I'll have to agree with Wikipedia:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator
>> "Every URL consists of some of the following: the scheme name
>> (commonly called protocol), followed by a colon, then, depending on
>> scheme, a domain name (alternatively, IP address), a port number,
>> the path of the resource to be fetched or the program to be run,
>> then, for programs such as Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts, a
>> query string,[8][9] and an optional fragment identifier.[10]
>>
>> The syntax is
>> scheme://domainort/path?query_string#fragment_id"
>>
>> They are in total agreement with what I had already understood to be
>> the case, so I like their answer better than yours. It is *still* a
>> URL whether a domain name (or other name) to IP address lookup is
>> needed or not.
>
> If your using the IP address, a domain name lookup (resolve URL to IP)
> seems a bit redundant.


Using an alias (ex: google.com ) is implicit

Using an IP address (ex: 74.125.93.99 ) is explicit

One can have problems with the implicit such as in the case of a multi-homed node or, as I
think I mentioned earlier, when a host hosts multiple sites.

--
Dave
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