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Interesting, I didn't know IPv4 addresses converted to hex could be used for anything.
It's all 1s and 0s at the end of the day
You can use a decimal number as well. It's rare to see that form of URL though.
Dotted Decimal is just a human convention. IPs are just 32 bit numbers meaning binary digit, and octal, dotted decimal and Hex are all valid representations of that same number. Subnet masks work via binary math.
Almost every single thing you would use an IP address for, you can substitute dotted decimal for octal or hex representations.
We have PABXes that use VxWorks and it uses hex IPs to identify each ethernet port
Might be easier to use with lower-level stuff like pure C?