[iola-conversion-tool] Fwd: [www.ietf.org/rt #46122] RFC 6349 PDF error

[Alexa Morris <[e-mail]>]

Please see below, we think this maybe related to the database conversion but please let me know if that is not the case.

Thanks,
Alexa


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Sandy Ginoza <[e-mail]>
> Date: March 13, 2012 3:09:12 PM PDT
> To: Alice Hagens <[e-mail]>
> Cc: Steve Young <[e-mail]>, [e-mail], Alexa Morris <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Re: [www.ietf.org/rt #46122] RFC 6349 PDF error 
> 
> Hi Alice,
> 
> This suggestion is correct to me if the goal is to link to the .pdf files created from the text files (all RFCs have them) -- as opposed to linking to the enhanced .pdf files (of which there are few).
> 
>> link of the form:
>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfcXXXX.pdf
>> should be:
>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/pdfrfc/rfcXXXX.txt.pdf
> 
> Thanks,
> Sandy
> 
> On Mar 13, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Alice Hagens wrote:
> 
>> Hi Sandy,
>> 
>> Looks like this is an error on all datatracker pages for RFCs where there is the PDF link.
>> 
>> link of the form:
>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfcXXXX.pdf
>> should be:
>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/pdfrfc/rfcXXXX.txt.pdf
>> 
>> Example: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6349/
>> link to:
>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6349.pdf
>> should be:
>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/pdfrfc/rfc6349.txt.pdf
>> 
>> Do you agree?
>> 
>> Other examples:
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5234/
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2119/
>> 
>> Alternatively: PDF link could point to the tools.ietf.org PDF
>> e.g. http://tools.ietf.org/pdf/rfc6349
>> But I'm guessing rfc-editor.org is the Right Choice.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Alice
>> 
>> On Mar 13, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Steve Young wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I'm sending this to a wide range of people because I'm not sure what the
>>> answer is here...
>>> 
>>> Is the error below simply because rfc6349 doesn't exist any more on
>>> rfc-editor because it's not a viable rfc and therefore shouldn't be listed
>>> in datatracker, or should it exist on rfc-editor but doesn't for some
>>> reason, or or or...
>>> 
>>> Any insight from anyone so we can determine what needs to be done to fix
>>> this would be welcome.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Steve
>>> 
>>> On 3/13/12 1:42 PM, "Marshall Eubanks via RT" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Tue Mar 13 13:42:56 2012: Request 46122 was acted upon.
>>>> Transaction: Ticket created by [e-mail]
>>>>    Queue: IETF-Action
>>>>  Subject: RFC 6349 PDF error
>>>>    Owner: Nobody
>>>> Requestors: [e-mail]
>>>>   Status: new
>>>> Ticket <URL: https://www.ietf.org/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=46122 >
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> In
>>>> 
>>>> On the datatracker page for this RFC
>>>> 
>>>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6349/
>>>> 
>>>> if you click on "pdf" you get
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6349.pdf
>>>> 
>>>> which returns
>>>> 
>>>> -----
>>>> Object not found!
>>>> 
>>>> The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the
>>>> referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author
>>>> of that page about the error.
>>>> 
>>>> If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
>>>> 
>>>> Error 404
>>>> 
>>>> www.rfc-editor.org
>>>> Tue Mar 13 13:39:25 2012
>>>> Apache/2.2.10 (Linux/SUSE) mod_ssl/2.2.10 OpenSSL/0.9.8h PHP/5.2.13
>>>> with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.6 mod_perl/2.0.4
>>>> Perl/v5.10.0
>>>> -----
>>>> 
>>>> I have not tested this for other RFCs.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards
>>>> Marshall
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 

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