useless search box on openssl.org

Dr Paul Dale pauli at openssl.org
Thu Nov 18 22:31:53 UTC 2021


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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