Thanks for pointing that out, Kirk. I'm passing this along to our
builders so that they can investigate. In the meantime, if you need to
point to a library PDF from anywhere, try linking to either of these
types of pages instead:
- KC landing page of the containing element, for example
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.e0z/e0z.htm
, which directly links to all the PDF files in that element.
- The abstract page for the book in the z/OS V2R4 Library of PDFs, for
example
https://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R4ga320890
, which directly links to just the one PDF file.
-Sue Shumway
On 7/24/2019 3:38 PM, Kirk Wolf wrote:
There's a more serious problem: something on your server is broken when
downloading PDFs from some clients. You are given an HTTP 400 Bad Request
response.
Browsers seem to work, but url links in PDFs from two PDF viewers that I
tried are completely broken. This makes it impossible to have, say, a
SHARE pdf presentation that links to an IBM V2R4 pdf publication.
(It isn't something related to different "User-Agent" strings; I tried
copying my Chrome agent string to curl -A and it fails the same way.)
Here's an example of the failure using "curl":
*> curl -v -L
https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R4sc276806/$file/foto100_v2r4.pdf
<https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R4sc276806/$file/foto100_v2r4.pdf>*
* Trying 104.114.1.42...
* Connected to www-01.ibm.com (104.114.1.42) port 443 (#0)
* found 149 certificates in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
* found 596 certificates in /etc/ssl/certs
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* SSL connection using TLS1.2 / ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
* server certificate verification OK
* server certificate status verification SKIPPED
* common name: www.ibm.com (matched)
* server certificate expiration date OK
* server certificate activation date OK
* certificate public key: RSA
* certificate version: #3
* subject: C=US,ST=New York,L=Armonk,O=IBM,CN=www.ibm.com
* start date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT
* expire date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:00:00 GMT
* issuer: C=US,O=DigiCert Inc,OU=www.digicert.com,CN=GeoTrust RSA CA 2018
* compression: NULL
* ALPN, server accepted to use http/1.1
GET
/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R4sc276806//foto100_v2r4.pdf
HTTP/1.1
Host: www-01.ibm.com
User-Agent: curl/7.47.0
Accept: */*
< HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
< Server: Lotus-Domino
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII
< Content-Length: 257
< X-Content-Type-Option: nosniff
< Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=0
< Cache-Control: no-cache
< Expires: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 19:27:02 GMT
< Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 19:27:02 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
<
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
<html>
<head>
<title>Error</title></head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<h1>Error</h1>HTTP Web Server: Unknown Command Exception</body>
</html>
* Connection #0 to host www-01.ibm.com left intact
On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 1:07 PM Susan Shumway <chale...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
Hi Kirk,
Yes, the URLs are all unique to the release for many reasons that
currently trump the convenience of having release-agnostic "latest"
URLs. Things always change, so I can't say that it will be like that
forever, but it's how the library is structured for now.
In case it helps, this URL doesn't change from release to release - it's
our z/OS Internet Library page of links to everything, and it's the
first URL that I tell everybody to bookmark:
http://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zosInternetLibrary
-Sue Shumway
On 7/24/2019 11:18 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote:
Thanks Susan,
I have a question: the URL references to the PDFs look like they *might*
be specific to the update/revision.
For example:
https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R4sc276806/$file/foto100_v2r4.pdf
Is there a stable URL to the "latest" V2R4 pub edition for a given
manual?
Perhaps asking about stable URLs isn't something that IBM wants to
discuss
:-)
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 3:58 PM Susan Shumway <chale...@us.ibm.com>
wrote:
Hi all,
All formats of the z/OS V2R4 product documentation are now published!
Links to everything are on the z/OS Internet Library:
https://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zosInternetLibrary
One important item of note is that the revision markers are not showing
up in the Knowledge Center content (for both V2R4 and V2R3). We are
actively working the issue with the appropriate teams and hope to have
it resolved quickly. In the meantime, see the "Summary of Changes"
section of each deliverable for details about what has changed, or use
the PDFs to see revision markers within the content.
Otherwise, as always, we welcome and value your input, so let us know
what you think!
-Sue Shumway
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