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

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Sun, 28 May 2023 18:41 UTC

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Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 11:41:06 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] [rfc-i] Broken relative links to I-Ds in RFCs
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On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 10:47 AM John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:

> 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


Alternatively, the htmlized versions could use absolute URLs, thus
rendering them portable.

-Ekr

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