Abbreviated IPv4 expansion via inet_aton
Why curl 127.1 resolves to 127.0.0.1: BSD inet_aton treats a.b as class A (8.24 bits).

#include <stdio.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
int main(void) {
struct in_addr addr;
// "127.1" -> 127.0.0.1, "0177.1" -> 127.0.0.1, "1.0" -> 1.0.0.0
if (inet_aton("127.1", &addr)) {
printf("Resolved: %s\n", inet_ntoa(addr));
}
return 0;
}Legacy BSD inet_aton() supports 1, 2, 3, or 4 parts: in a.b, b is evaluated as the lower 24-bit host number (a << 24) | b. Octal (0177.1) and hex (0x7f.1) prefixes work too.