Re: [Tools-discuss] Rfcdiff v 0.12 feedback

Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> Tue, 01 June 2021 19:22 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] Rfcdiff v 0.12 feedback
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What do you see at https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?

(That's the webservice that will have support going forward - the page 
at tools.ietf.org will likely start redirecting soon).

RjS

On 6/1/21 1:19 PM, Carsten Bormann 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.)
>
> 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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