Bug 64466 - wrong http://www.boutell.com/cgic/ link in https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/cgi.html
Summary: wrong http://www.boutell.com/cgic/ link in https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Apache httpd-2
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version: 2.4-HEAD
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: HTTP Server Documentation List
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Reported: 2020-05-22 09:23 UTC by Dr. Prőhle Péter
Modified: 2020-06-08 19:35 UTC (History)
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Description Dr. Prőhle Péter 2020-05-22 09:23:56 UTC 
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/cgi.html

contains a bad link

in section "CGI modules/libraries" (this is close to the end of this page)

concerning "If you're writing CGI programs in C, there are a variety of options. One of these is the CGIC library, from".

The bad link is "http://www.boutell.com/cgic/",

ending up at "https://www.boutell.co.uk/bad-credit-loans/",

what seems to be a business site, having no thematic connection with CGI.

I suggest the thematically proper link: http://web.mit.edu/wwwdev/www/cgic.html

which seems to be the proper home of "cgic: an ANSI C library for CGI Programming
By Thomas Boutell".
Comment 1 Christophe JAILLET 2020-06-08 19:35:51 UTC 
Fixed on trunk in r1878627 and on 2.4.x in r1878628.
Slightly updated to use https instead of http.

Thx for spotting and reporting it.