Re: [Tools-discuss] File name truncation?

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

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.


Best,

	Henrik