Not a bad idea. However, I don't see that this is a common enough type of thing used on the site to be necessary (or for
vroom or whoever to spend the time setting it up). On another note, I believe I once saw a snippet for grabbing an RFC straight off the FTP. *digs through some stuff*
Ok, found the code. Here it is... *Disclaimer* I didn't write this, but I don't remember who did. If it was you, take credit for it in reply to this post.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
# example usage: rfc 1459 (gets the IRC RFC)
use strict;
$|++;
use LWP::Simple;
use HTTP::Status;
die("usage: rfc <rfc#>\n") unless defined($ARGV[0]);
my $rfcnum=$ARGV[0];
my $base="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc";
my $rfcurl=$base.$rfcnum.".txt";
my $rfcdir="$ENV{HOME}/rfcs";
my $rfcfile="${rfcdir}/rfc${rfcnum}.txt";
my $rfc;
my $rc=mirror($rfcurl,$rfcfile);
# any 4xx or 5xx error probably means we got no RFC
if($rc < 400) {
open(RFC,"<$rfcfile") or die("open($rfcfile): $!\n");
local $/ = undef;
$rfc=<RFC>;
close(RFC);
print "$rfc";
} else {
print "Failed to fetch ${rfcurl}: $rc ", status_message($rc), "\n"
+;
}
__END__
