URLs, IPs and interception

[Roland Perry]

In article <47C9CEE4.5040901@defoam.net>, Adrian Midgley 
<amidgley2@defoam.net> writes
>> Indeed, if I bought two ADSL connections from two
>> ISPs and slung all my DNS traffic down one and all my HTTP down the
>> other --- hardly rocket science to set up --- the HTTP ISP has no
>> business knowing anything about my traffic at all.
>
>Or inded if you did your DNS lookups inhouse, or reverted to using IP
>numbers...

<cough> they are *numbers* which represent *IP addresses*

But you can't always access a website purely by IP address.

eg:  http://208.109.20.133  gives a different result to:
      http://www.hemorrhoids-relief-guide.com/
      ... which resolves to that IP address.
-- 
Roland Perry