On 6 May 2010, at 10:04 AM, Mansfield, Kenneth wrote:
Hello.
I have recently contacted the NCSA site regarding the unavailability
of the hoohoo server which hosted the CGI specifications. As an
instructor at several institutions, I frequently direct my students
to the CGI specifications page for basic web programming information.
In the note I received below, I was informed that the hoohoo server
is no longer available. Since you link to that resource yourself (http://www.w3.org/CGI/
), I wanted to bring the situation to your attention in the hopes
that you may be able to obtain that content and host it yourself.
Thank you, Ken.
I'm adding the Webmaster at ncsa.illinois.edu to the thread to see if
we can get help restoring those URIs.
There are a number of links from:
http://www.w3.org/CGI/
that no longer work. It would be great if the NCSA maintained those
URIs, which have an important historical role.
I note, for instance, that there are also links from RFC 3875 [1]
("The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Version 1.1") that are similarly
broken.
And also from the Apache Web site:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.1/howto/cgi.html
(which links to the W3C site)
So, I would like to see whether we can work with the NCSA to have them
restore the URIs on their site. If that proves impossible, then
perhaps W3C can host the resources.
Thank you,
_ Ian
[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3875
Ken Mansfield
From: Nobody on behalf of [email protected]
Sent: Wed 5/5/2010 5:12 PM
To: Mansfield, Kenneth
Subject: Re: hoohoo server
FROM: Wilson, Rolf D.
(Concerning ticket No. 185474)
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After some searching, I found that the hoohoo server is no longer
active. I do
not know of an alternative source for the documentation that you
were using.
Rolf Wilson
NCSA/TeraGrid Operations Center
[email protected]
Local 217 244-0710 Toll Free 1-866-907-2383
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