No. Dotted-decimal notation is the only acceptable way to represent an IPv4 address in a URI according to RFC 3986. That RFC even specifically mentions that many implementations that process URIs make use of platform-dependent system routines, such as gethostbyname() and inet_aton(), to translate the string literal to an actual IP address and that may allow ways around filtering software.

If it is explicitly against the RFC then browsers shouldn't allow it.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#page-20
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-7.4

We don't. Dotted-decimal notation is the only acceptable way to represent an IPv4 address in a URI according to RFC 3986. That RFC even specifically mentions that many implementations that process URIs make use of platform-dependent system routines, such as gethostbyname() and inet_aton(), to translate the string literal to an actual IP address and that may allow ways around filtering software.

If it is explicitly against the RFC then browsers shouldn't allow it.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#page-20
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-7.4

After I had yet another Western Digital harddrive die making an 8/11 or 72% failure rate over 5 years, I just ordered parts for a new computer including a hardware RAID from Newegg yesterday.

8x SAMSUNG F1 RAID Class HE103UJ
1x 3ware 9650SE-8LPML
1x 3ware BBU-MODULE-04 Battery Backup Unit

For $1,829.90 to make a 7 drive hardware RAID 6 array with 1 hotspare, but it seems I went with a lot higher quality parts than they did. And I included the price of the controller...

After my horrible experiences with consumer Western Digital drives (6x 250GB PATA and 2x 500GB SATA dead in the last 5 years), I wasn't about to touch these new consumer 2TB "Green" drives or the cursed Seagate 1.5TB drives so I went with the more expensive HE103UJ's. I hope they are worth it since this will be my first experience with a RAID. In the past I just used everything as separate drives since they weren't purchased all at once and I've paid greatly for that mistake.

It's not an ULTRA CHEAP RAID but I think it should be a fairly high quality one at least.