Re: [Tools-discuss] File name truncation?

[Adam Roach <[e-mail]>]

  On 10/19/10 09:10, Oct 19, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> On 2010-10-19 03:29 Adam Roach said:
>>    When I go to
>> "http://tools.ietf.org/rfcmarkup?topmenu=true&doc=draft-roach-sip-http-subscribe"
>> and then click on "tracker", it gives me an error. The problem seems to
>> be that it is trying to open
>> "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-roach-sip-http-subscr/" instead
>> of "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-roach-sip-http-subscribe/".
>>
>> Is there some kind of very small limit on file names in the tools database?
> No, you're just using the raw tool without providing quite the expected input
> format.  That particular invocation expects the doc parameter to contain the
> revision number.
>
> If you instead use the path
>
>    http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-roach-sip-http-subscribe
>
> you'll get a better result, as that interface goes to some length to produce
> correct parameters to provide to the rfcmarkup tool which does the actual
> conversion.  The pages are also cached in order to load the servers less and
> produce results faster (but in some cases (maybe yours?) the caching is
> undesirable, of course).  Is there any particular reason why you prefer to use
> the direct /rfcmarkup? invocation?  If this has started to get substantial use,
> I should understand why, and see if something needs to be changed in order to
> support the use better.

Heh. I didn't actually select one over the other -- I'm just lazy enough 
that I don't bother digging through my bookmarks to get draft status. 
Instead, I type some substantial portion of the draft name in to Google, 
and click on the first link that comes up from tools.ietf.org. In this 
case, I landed on the rfcmarkup page instead of the cached page. I don't 
know how that particular link got picked up by Google...

If this starts to see heavy traffic, you might do a check in that script 
to see whether the Referer is one of the major search engines, and 
redirect to the cached version if it is.

/a