Re: Stale external URL in doc?

Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>

From: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
To: daniel@yesql.se
Cc: thomas.munro@gmail.com, magnus@hagander.net, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, bruce@momjian.us, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Date: 2020-07-17T03:13:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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At Thu, 16 Jul 2020 14:09:17 +0200, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote in 
> > On 10 Jul 2020, at 23:55, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 10 Jul 2020, at 23:47, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> >>> The others required minor manual sleuthing to correct; I hope I found
> >>> the correct ISN ranges page.  Please see attached.
> >> 
> >> I didn't actually check any of these, but they look like sane changes.
> > 
> > +1, looks good, thanks!
> 
> Since this is still in flight, I'm tacking on a few more in the attached diff
> that I stumbled across.  gnu.org will redirect from http to https so we might
> as well have that in our docs from the start.

I checked through http:// URLs in the documentation.

1. 505 Not found (0001-Fix-505-URL.patch)

  (Shows login page instead)  
  http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/seshadri95generalized.html 
    => https://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.40.5740

2. moved or rearranged (0002-Fixed-URLs-mofed-or-rearranged.patch)

  http://initd.org/psycopg/
    => https://www.psycopg.org/

  http://db.cs.berkeley.edu => https://dsf.berkeley.edu
    http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/jmh/
    http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/
    http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M85-95.pdf
    http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M87-06.pdf
    http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M87-13.pdf
    http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M89-17.pdf
    http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M89-82.pdf
    http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M90-34.pdf
    http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M90-36.pdf
    http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/UCB-MS-zfong.pdf
    http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/postgres.html

   (I counldn't find the eqquivalent for http://gist.cs.berkeley.edu/
    in dsf.berkeley.edu)

   http://json.org =>  https://www.json.org  (Redirects to localized page)


3. Has the same page for https://  (0003-change-http-URLs-to-https.patch)
  http://cve.mitre.org/
  http://jlcooke.ca/random/
  http://postgis.net/
  http://pqxx.org/
  http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strftime.html
  http://snowballstem.org/
  http://sourceware.org/systemtap/
  http://standards.ieee.org/
  http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c067367_ISO_IEC_TR_19075-6_2017.zip
  http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/dist/index.html
  http://www.issn.org/
  http://www.iusmentis.com/security/passphrasefaq/
  http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php
  http://www.npgsql.org/
  http://www.openwall.com/crypt/
  http://www.perl.org
  http://www.red3d.com/cwr/evolve.html
  http://www.slony.info
  http://www.tcl.tk/
  http://www.zlib.net
  http://zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml
  (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/)
  (http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/)

4. Has https:// page with some troubles.
  http://www.sunfreeware.com  (insecure certificate)
  http://xmlsoft.org (insercure certificate)
   http://xmlsoft.org/
   http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
  http://www.tpc.org/ (private certificate and ... looks odd..)


5. Seems not having https pages.
  http://gist.cs.berkeley.edu/
  http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net
  http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/metadoc/docbook-guide.html
  http://meteora.ucsd.edu/s2k/s2k_home.html
  http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sdparm.html
  http://userguide.icu-project.org/collation/api
  http://userguide.icu-project.org/locale
  http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
  http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/genetic/part1/
  http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/snake-oil-faq.html
  http://www.mingw.org/
  http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS
  http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/
  http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/oddmuse/index.cgi/Gin
  http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/
  http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/papers/concurrency/access-methods-for-next-generation.pdf.gz
  http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/
  http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/wiki/Gin
  http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/wiki/spgist_dev
  http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/_/ldpath.html

I attached fixes for 1, 2 and 3, and not for 4. (5 doesn't need
changes).

regards.

-- 
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center

Commits

  1. Fix conversion table generator scripts.

  2. doc: Refresh more URLs in the docs

  3. Doc: update or remove dead external links.

  4. Rewrite the perl scripts to produce our Unicode conversion tables.