Re: [Tools-discuss] [rfc-i] Broken relative links to I-Ds in RFCs

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 28 May 2023 17:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] [rfc-i] Broken relative links to I-Ds in RFCs
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It appears that Brian E Carpenter  <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> said:
>> I've recently noticed that the links to I-Ds in RFCs on RFC-editor.org do not work proper

>> Spot-checking, this seems to be true for other ID references in this RFC and others.
>
>Oops, it looks as if the .html files at rfc-editor are exact copies of the htmlized versions at datatracker.ietf.org, where that form of
>relative URL works fine.

It's just a bug in the script that makes the RFC Ed's copies.  

The scripts that make the pages are here:

https://github.com/rfc-editor/rpcwebsite

R's,
John