Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service

tom petch <daedulus@btconnect.com> Mon, 30 November 2020 12:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, ietf@ietf.org
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From: tom petch <daedulus@btconnect.com>
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On 28/11/2020 16:47, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Am 28.11.2020 um 13:49 schrieb tom petch:
>> Retiring the FTP service will impair my ability to contribute to the
>> IETF.
>>
>> For a long time, I struggled to download copies of IETF documents in the
>> form that the author intended.  The topic arose on this list and I was
>> pointed at the FTP service and this solved my problems; the amount of
>> work I could do in the IETF increased.
>> ...
>
> Ok, I'll bite.
>
> Are you saying that when you open
>
>    https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7230.txt
>
> in a browser and do a "save as...", you're getting a broken document?

Yes.

This is not the URL I used before, that came from a post from Roman and 
was for an older RFC.

Be clear, I want ASCII text, which I can view anywhere, with a wide 
range of tools, edit (well not often RFC) and will usually be what the 
author created.  So given the choices with 'save as' I will choose text 
and then the saved file starts with the complete CSS  (gee thanks web 
designer, how is it you always know better than me what it is that I 
want:-)  The other three options all give me different forms of the 
HTML.  So yet another way for HTTP/HTML to not give me what I want!

Tom Petch

> Best regards, Julian
>
> .
>