On 30/11/2020 12:43, Julian Reschke wrote:
Am 30.11.2020 um 13:30 schrieb tom petch:
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.
Well, in that case we should figure out what's going on. This is the
official plain text file published by the RFC Editor. If you can't
retrieve and save it without getting broken content, something is
seriously wrong with either your client or your network connection.
This is not the URL I used before, that came from a post from Roman and
was for an older RFC.
It would help if you provided a concrete example HTTP(S) URL for an RFC
(or an I-D) that fails for you (and optimally a description that the
failure exactly is).
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
Yes. That's the case with the text/plain resource mentioned above.
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
That would be the case if you save an *HTML* resource, not a plain text
resource.
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!
What "other three options"?
Julian
I keyed in the URL you gave above for RFC7230. Using Internet Explorer
(as installed by HP with Windows), 'Save as' gives me the four choices of
Webpage complete htm html
Web Archive single file mht
Webpage HTML only htm, html
Text File txt
from which I chose Text File. Viewing the result with Wordpad gives me
the CSS followed by the text. The text is ok AFAICT but all that CSS is
unwelcome and is what I referred to as broken.
File-Properties tells me that this is
Type HTML Document
which seems plausible with a
Created: 30/11/2020 (I am in a European Locale)
which is the same for all that I look at on the rfc-editor site via
https: - accessing the IETF site File-Properties shows the date as
Not Available
I see no sign of Text/Plain (which, as you gather, is close to my heart:-)
Tom Petch
Best regards, Julian
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