Re: [Tools-discuss] Rfcdiff v 0.12 feedback

Jay Daley <jay@ietf.org> Tue, 01 June 2021 19:27 UTC

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> On 2/06/2021, at 6:19 AM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
> 
> Weird, this form used to do a GET, which led to a reusable URL in the browser address line (see the bottom half of the page for how that is used).
> 
> (You can still have that after using this useful little bookmark on this form, which I have stored as “frmget”:
> 
> javascript:(function()%7Bvar%20x,i;%20x%20=%20document.forms;%20for%20(i%20=%200;%20i%20%3C%20x.length;%20++i)%20x%5Bi%5D.method=%22get%22;%20alert(%22Changed%20%22%20+%20x.length%20+%20%22%20forms%20to%20use%20the%20GET%20method.%20%20After%20submitting%20a%20form%20from%20this%20page,%20you%20should%20be%20able%20to%20bookmark%20the%20result.%22);%20%7D)();
> 
> .)
> 
> The form page now uses POST, which doesn’t make sense to me.
> 
> I can still save the resulting page and look at it in its full glory (both in Chrome and Safari, but of course the formats are different), so I cannot reproduce that part of the report.
> 
> But I want my GET back!
> (Without needing to use the frmget hack, please.)

So that I’m clear - do you want to bookmark the GET in order to repeat the same diff?  In other words, if the result was stored indefinitely and a bookmarkable URL returned then would that be sufficient for you?  (not designing things here, just trying to understand the use case).

Jay

> 
> By the way, the rfcdiff is 1.48, only the form page seems to have a separate version number.
> (Brew’s rfcdiff is still 1.46, which I have pinned now...)
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
> 
> 
>> On 2021-06-01, at 19:46, Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Some change seems to have been made to stop people from saving Diffs
>> from the Rfcdiff Web Service, https://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff.
>> 
> 
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