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Replace links to RFCs on tools.ietf.org with rfc-editor.org

Mark Amery requested to merge ExplodingCabbage/gitlab:master into master

What does this MR do and why?

Updates all links to RFCs on tools.ietf.org (in docs and comments) with links to rfc-editor.org instead.

There were two such kinds of links:

  • Links like https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.1 (with /html/ in the URL). These links still work today, but are redirects to rfc-editor.org now. Linking directly to rfc-editor.org is thus slightly preferable (it avoids the need for the redirect, which means the page will load faster and there's less chance of the link breaking in future).
  • Links like https://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc4515. These USED to go directly to the HTML version of the RFC, but no longer do; as of some time around July-September 2022 (based on a look in the Wayback Machine), tools.ietf.org/search links changed into redirects to searches on https://datatracker.ietf.org/. After visiting https://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc4515 (with /search/ in the URL), to actually see the RFC you now need to click the RFC name in the search results and then click for the HTML version. Inconvenient!

I left the ee/spec/fixtures/security_reports directory alone (which contains loads of old tools.ietf.org RFC links) since I guess I shouldn't be updating historical scan reports, but otherwise this replaces these links across the entire repo.

Note that @aqualls already fixed these links where they appeared in the doc/ folder, over in !99273 (merged). This MR just cleans up the rest!

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Visit the links, I guess 😛

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