[GH-ISSUE #815] RFC 2119 link is broken #6524

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opened 2026-06-17 05:21:49 -05:00 by GiteaMirror · 4 comments
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Originally created by @rayzchen on GitHub (Mar 19, 2022).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/semver/semver/issues/815

The RFC 2119 link at https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0-rc.2.html#semantic-versioning-specification-semver links to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119 which gives:

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Originally created by @rayzchen on GitHub (Mar 19, 2022). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/semver/semver/issues/815 The RFC 2119 link at https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0-rc.2.html#semantic-versioning-specification-semver links to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119 which gives: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/54078384/159134227-278e89ca-18d5-4707-ae65-0be6a5d3f03d.png)
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@bfernand commented on GitHub (Mar 29, 2022):

The correct link is: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt

<!-- gh-comment-id:1081319759 --> @bfernand commented on GitHub (Mar 29, 2022): The correct link is: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt
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@dkg commented on GitHub (Mar 29, 2022):

I recommend using https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119 or BCP14 which also includes the disambiguation in RFC 8174, which is applicable to the semver document.

<!-- gh-comment-id:1082085698 --> @dkg commented on GitHub (Mar 29, 2022): I recommend using https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119 or [BCP14](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/bcp14) which also includes the disambiguation in [RFC 8174](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8174/), which is applicable to the semver document.
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@RoystonS commented on GitHub (May 2, 2022):

The original http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119 link which was reported as broken is now working, and automatically redirects to https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119.

<!-- gh-comment-id:1114918854 --> @RoystonS commented on GitHub (May 2, 2022): The original http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119 link which was reported as broken is now working, and automatically redirects to https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119.
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@ralphie79 commented on GitHub (Jun 16, 2022):

The original http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119 link which was reported as broken is now working, and automatically redirects to https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119.

The redirect works only for HTTPS, and not HTTP.
semver.md was already corrected with 6a1d691c2c

<!-- gh-comment-id:1158002174 --> @ralphie79 commented on GitHub (Jun 16, 2022): > The original http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119 link which was reported as broken is now working, and automatically redirects to https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119. The redirect works only for HTTPS, and not HTTP. [semver.md](https://github.com/semver/semver/blob/master/semver.md) was already corrected with 6a1d691c2c3cb699a755e7d00037ed4b518cb4b4
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Reference: github-starred/semver#6524