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Dead links between RFCs

Open hickford opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Describe the issue

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8252#section-8.1 has a dead link

Authorization servers SHOULD reject authorization requests from native apps that don't use PKCE by returning an error message, as defined in Section 4.4.1 of PKCE [RFC7636].

The link target is https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8252#section-4.4.1 (wrong RFC, right section number) but clearly it should be https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7636#section-4.4.1 (right RFC, right section).

RFC editor https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8252#section-8.1 has the same problem

Code of Conduct

hickford avatar Oct 05 '22 16:10 hickford

I expect when we get to the root of this, it will be a bug with rfc2html, not the datatracker.

rjsparks avatar Oct 13 '22 23:10 rjsparks

Check if the new HTMLIzation on sandbox has this fixed?

larseggert avatar Oct 14 '22 05:10 larseggert

It hasn't the issue is that rfc2html doesn't understand "Section X of Y" references, and if the current doc has a Section X, it will happily link to that.

larseggert avatar Feb 08 '23 15:02 larseggert