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Show HN: rfc.me
- cdancette 9y agoThis is amusing but is not really useful. Google + "RFC" + number seems faster. Or if you're going to bookmark this website to go faster, why not just bookmark https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1000 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1000 ?
- abrahamvegh 9y agoThanks, it is intended to be both amusing and not very useful! Also, I don't think you could even bookmark the site if you wanted, as the redirects are issued as 308. :D
- majewsky 9y agoEven faster is DuckDuckGo. "!rfc 1000" directly sends you to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1000 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1000 without a SERP. Also, some distributions ship RFCs in a package (e.g. on Arch Linux: `pacman -S rfc`), which works without internet access.
- leggomylibro 9y agoCool, but the documentation projects I really use often are ones that take the often antiquated presentation of the open-source site and puts it together in an easier-to-search/view way. Example: http://docs.gl/ http://docs.gl/ What about...oh I dunno, maybe a few lists? By category, by number? Maybe a nice 'reader mode' for the actual .txt files? Sorry, maybe that's outside the scope of what you're going for here, I just don't usually mentally organize RFCs by their number. Instead I usually think, 'the RFC about TCP,' or whatever.
- transitorykris 9y agoI would love to say rfc.me/bgp (for instance) and get what I’m looking for without wading through obsoleted RFCs. This would be a solid next step for the author. Significantly more work though.
- abrahamvegh 9y agoThis would be an excellent idea and I will absolutely throw this in a todo list.
- amenghra 9y agohttp://altsoph.com/pp/rfc/ http://altsoph.com/pp/rfc/ is the exact opposite. A fun visualization that will get you to go look at all those obsoleted RFCs!
- jlgaddis 9y agoWow, a URL redirect. Impressive. /s If this is intended to actually be useful, you should follow the other suggestions here and add some lists (most popular) or categories (e-mail, web, routing protocols) or something. The way it is now, I imagine it took longer to purchase the domain name than it did to code up the redirect.
- fiatjaf 9y agoYes. It doesn't even need an index or anything like that, as the URL to RFCs are pretty straightforward: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738 I don't understand why people are upvoting this.
- abrahamvegh 9y agoIt's not very useful.
- degenerate 9y agoI agree, a "most common" list on the homepage would be nice. Otherwise, not useful enough to visit.
- abrahamvegh 9y agoThis is the plan, but given it took me seven years to get this far, please don't hold your breath. :)
- abrahamvegh 9y agoThe back story here is that I purchased the domain in 2010, fully intending to have the same functionality back then, and each year since as I renewed it. So your sarcasm is absolutely warranted and welcome. It did take all of 15 minutes fiddling with a mediocre RewriteRule to get the functionality I wanted.
- TazeTSchnitzel 9y agoHonestly, I can't consistently get the right version of RFCs (the tools.ietf.blah one) when I Google, so this is useful because I can actually remember the URL.
- majewsky 9y agoOn DuckDuckGo, enter "!rfc 1234" to get redirected to the correct page on tools.ietf.org directly.
- lvh 9y agoI wrote a funny version of this once, that shows Lego sets with the same number as an RFC. Someone got a domain for it, but it appears to have lapsed: http://rfcdothelp.herokuapp.com/ http://rfcdothelp.herokuapp.com/
- abrahamvegh 9y agoThis is excellent.
- lvh 9y agoI’m glad you like it. If there’s no matching LEGO set, you get a Unikitty.