diff --git a/docs/MANUAL b/docs/MANUAL
index 0622696f5..f849110e1 100644
--- a/docs/MANUAL
+++ b/docs/MANUAL
@@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ LDAP
   Working with LDAP URLs":
   http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/dirsdk/csdk30/url.htm
 
-  RFC 2255, "The LDAP URL Format" http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2255.txt
+  RFC 2255, "The LDAP URL Format" http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/rfc2255.txt
 
   To show you an example, this is now I can get all people from my local LDAP
   server that has a certain sub-domain in their email address:
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index a99a59911..58b71f41b 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ curl is powered by libcurl for all transfer-related features. See
 for details.
 .SH URL
 The URL syntax is protocol dependent. You'll find a detailed description in
-RFC 2396.
+RFC 3986.
 
 You can specify multiple URLs or parts of URLs by writing part sets within
 braces as in: