useless search box on openssl.org

[Dr Paul Dale]

It would be nice if the search engines checked for URL validity and 
cleaned their caches from time to time.

Apart from keeping dross around from old unsupported versions, I don't 
think there is much the project can do about this unfortunately.


Pauli

On 19/11/21 7:48 am, Michael Richardson wrote:
> If you go to any page on openssl.org, and using the search box, you enter,
> say:
>          X509_get_ext_d2i
>
> then you go to:
>       https://www.google.com/search?sitesearch=www.openssl.org&q=X509_get_ext_d2i
>
> which gives me, aas the top link:
>
> X509V3_get_d2i - OpenSSLhttps://www.openssl.org › man3 › X509_get_ext_d2i
> X509V3_get_ext_d2i() looks for an extension with OID nid in the extensions x
> and, if found, decodes it. If idx is NULL then only one occurrence of an
> extension ...
>
> which is a link to:
>        https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.0/man3/X509_get_ext_d2i.html
>
> which is Page Not Found.  I guess because man1.1.1 is now current.
> With no forwarder.
>
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