[Openvpn-devel,v2,1/2] doc: Fix hyperlinks in openvpn(8)
Commit Message
From: Christian Kujau <github@nerdbynature.de>
* http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/mihir/papers/hmac.html - 404, RFC104 basically
* http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html - 404, unfortunately
* http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2246.txt - HTTPS upgrade to the HTML version
Signed-off-by: Christian Kujau <github@nerdbynature.de>
---
doc/man-sections/link-options.rst | 2 +-
doc/man-sections/protocol-options.rst | 2 +-
doc/openvpn.8.rst | 6 +++---
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Comments
On Mon, Oct 06, 2025 at 04:42:47PM +0200, Christian Kujau wrote:
> From: Christian Kujau <github@nerdbynature.de>
>
> * http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/mihir/papers/hmac.html - 404, RFC104 basically
Probably a good replacement.
> * http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html - 404, unfortunately
Did a quick search, also couldn't come up with an immediate
replacement. For now the replacement is probably better than
nothing, but maybe we just need to write our own article about
the topic?
> * http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2246.txt - HTTPS upgrade to the HTML version
Acked-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.com>
Regards,
Your patch has been applied to the master and release/2.6 branch
(documentation updates are always worthy a backport).
commit 3199fcebd3b3dd3f207d8cab7693d5eac3bdc64d (master)
commit a53b49ebb38e232c21b329bf997828ad589eb471 (release/2.6)
Author: Christian Kujau
Date: Mon Oct 6 16:42:47 2025 +0200
doc: Fix hyperlinks in openvpn(8)
Signed-off-by: Christian Kujau <github@nerdbynature.de>
Acked-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.com>
Message-Id: <20251006144249.23672-2-lists@nerdbynature.de>
URL: https://sourceforge.net/p/openvpn/mailman/message/59242864/
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
--
kind regards,
Gert Doering
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ the local and the remote host.
used over unreliable or congested networks.
This article outlines some of problems with tunneling IP over TCP:
- http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html
+ https://web.archive.org/web/20141025181658/http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html
There are certain cases, however, where using TCP may be advantageous
from a security and robustness perspective, such as tunneling non-IP or
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ configured in a compatible way between both the local and remote side.
authentication.
For more information on HMAC see
- http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/mihir/papers/hmac.html
+ https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2104
--cipher alg
This option should not be used any longer in TLS mode and still
@@ -150,10 +150,10 @@ NOTES
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
(https://www.openssl.org/)
-For more information on the TLS protocol, see
-http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2246.txt
+For more information on the TLS protocol see:
+https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2246
-For more information on the LZO real-time compression library see
+For more information on the LZO real-time compression library see:
https://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/