On 28/11/2020 16:47, Julian Reschke wrote:
Am 28.11.2020 um 13:49 schrieb tom petch:
Retiring the FTP service will impair my ability to contribute to the
IETF.
For a long time, I struggled to download copies of IETF documents in the
form that the author intended. The topic arose on this list and I was
pointed at the FTP service and this solved my problems; the amount of
work I could do in the IETF increased.
...
Ok, I'll bite.
Are you saying that when you open
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7230.txt
in a browser and do a "save as...", you're getting a broken document?
Yes.
This is not the URL I used before, that came from a post from Roman and
was for an older RFC.
Be clear, I want ASCII text, which I can view anywhere, with a wide
range of tools, edit (well not often RFC) and will usually be what the
author created. So given the choices with 'save as' I will choose text
and then the saved file starts with the complete CSS (gee thanks web
designer, how is it you always know better than me what it is that I
want:-) The other three options all give me different forms of the
HTML. So yet another way for HTTP/HTML to not give me what I want!
Tom Petch
Best regards, Julian
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