diff --git a/tuf/scripts/simple_server.py b/tuf/scripts/simple_server.py
index 9ed30541..e540c3a8 100755
--- a/tuf/scripts/simple_server.py
+++ b/tuf/scripts/simple_server.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 <Reference>
   SimpleHTTPServer:
-    http://docs.python.org/library/simplehttpserver.html#module-SimpleHTTPServer
+    https://docs.python.org/2/library/simplehttpserver.html
 """
 
 # Help with Python 3 compatibility, where the print statement is a function, an