Re: [Tools-discuss] ID-Nits enhancement

Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> Sat, 25 June 2005 22:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] ID-Nits enhancement
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Hi Joel,

On 2005-06-25 21:14 Joel M. Halpern said the following:
> I don't know if this is a practical enhancement.
> I find myself needing to check IDs for which I have a URL.
> I can download the draft onto my machine, and then use the IDNits 
> webservice to upload and check the draft.
> It would seem simple for me to simply hand the tool a URL, and ask it to 
> check the draft at that URL.

I quite agree.  I've updated the web-service to accept URLs as well as
upload filenames:  If you now enter a http or ftp URL in the filename field
of http://tools.ietf.org/tools/idnits/idnits.pyht, the service will download
the file and run the check.

Additionally, you can now also invoke the service by composing an URL as:
http://tools.ietf.org/tools/idnits/idnits.pyht?filename=<URL>,
e.g. (using the latest ietf-announce document):

http://tools.ietf.org/tools/idnits/idnits.pyht?filename=http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-rescorla-dtls-05.txt

Hope that helps,

	Henrik


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