Re: Nit: incorrect HTML anchor in ipsec.conf manpage (4.1, 4.2, CURRENT)

Stiphane Chausson wrote, On 5/11/07 10:30:
> Jason McIntyre wrote, On 4/11/07 15:01:
>> On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:35:05AM -0600, Walter Goulet wrote:
>>> The manpage for ipsec.conf
>>> (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec.conf&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+4.1&arch=i386&format=html) 
>>>
>>> has an incorrect HTML anchor applied to the 'null (none)' encryption
>>> cipher (clicking on the link runs an invalid query on the web manpage
>>> interface).
>>>
>>
>> the web pages are generated from the nroff source, and are not always
>> perfect. i've no idea why that bit shows up as a link, but i doubt it
>> can be easily fixed.
>>
>> jmc
>>
>>
> 
> This as to with the way man.cgi search and replace references to 
> manpages with hyperlinks.
> 
> I am not used to Perl but it seems the magic appends with this line 
> s,((<[IB]>)?[\w\_\.\-]+\s*(</[IB]>)?\s*\(([1-9ln][a-zA-Z]*)\)),&mlnk($1),oige; 
> 
> 
> The link is created because the word in parenthesis begins with a 'n'.
> It could happen with any word beginning with a 'L' too.
> 
> As I said I don't know Perl language quite well but maybe a solution 
> could be to use the %section array defined at the top of the script to 
> build the part of regexp searching for word in parenthesis.
> 
> 

One has to read : "This has to do with" ...
Sorry for the noise.