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[SPEC] Hidden URL encoding in web page
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gestalt
Kilroy

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 		[SPEC] Hidden URL encoding in web page
I am seeing some variation in the web page and wonder if it is important. If one assumes that something, AI hostile or friendly, has taken over the site, then it may communicate through the site.

First of all, if I use IE as my browser, I get the added bonus of a flock of bees following my pointer. The bees vary in number from 7-28. When I use Mozilla, I do not see this. However, this could be due to a variation in my security setting, IE specific code, etc. This may not be important. I have not seen it previously however. Maybe others have.

However, the URL for the site is a little strange. For example, using a URL of 777.ilovebees.com, still gets you to the site. Given this, I thought maybe their is a pattern within the page that will lead to a unique URL which still provides. I tried using the stripes which appear when using the hive link (also the only link that I have found which produces the bee buzz sound).

The stripe pattern seems random. I tried to create a URL with additional numbers using the following encoding schemes.

1. If only horizontal stripes are present, then it is a number to be added to the URL, i.e. four stripes indicate a URL of 4.ilovebees.com.

2. If horizontal and vertical stripes are present, then add a dot and use the horizontal stipes as the next number. Given 4 horizontal and 4 vertical stripes, the URL would now be 4.4.ilovebees.com.

This got me no where. I tried for a while but just continued to get "random" numbers.

However, this page is the only one with the bee sound and that seems significant. Further, that the website takes these random sequences of numbers and still produces valid .html seems intriguing. I don't have a background in the browser interpretation and serving up this type of data. Is this significant? When I tested 777.yahoo.com for instance, it was not a valid address. Is it uncommon that the web server for ilovebees.com will serve these pages up?

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cyanogen
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Joined: 25 Jul 2004
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 		its just a wildcard in dns.. lots of people do that.

*.ilovebees.com

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sebs
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Joined: 26 Jul 2004
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cyanogen wrote:
its just a wildcard in dns.. lots of people do that.

*.ilovebees.com


Yeah, but maybe if we go to a specific one, something would change, I doubt it, but you never know Smile

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aliendial
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 		Not sure what to do with it, but good observation. Others had noted that anywordatall.ilovebees.com will work, and had seen a lot of these numbers, but I do not think anyone had noted that there is an logic to it relating to page content. Could just be running through a list of pages that were named this way so the designers could keep track, I suppose.
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