From a9e3b926f7944f2d5fc583eab2af53b8067d9868 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lars Eggert <lars@eggert.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:20:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: rfc2html creates a "a" tag without href for references,
 handle that (#4975)

---
 ietf/utils/text.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ietf/utils/text.py b/ietf/utils/text.py
index 4bca87616..d5463c9f4 100644
--- a/ietf/utils/text.py
+++ b/ietf/utils/text.py
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ validate_url = URLValidator()
 
 def check_url_validity(attrs, new=False):
     if (None, "href") not in attrs:
-        return None
+        # rfc2html creates a tags without href
+        return attrs
     url = attrs[(None, "href")]
     try:
         if url.startswith("http"):