Synopsis: .htaccess can be bypassed with cgi scripts which use PATH_TRANSLATED 
info (Re: PR1418)

State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: marc
State-Changed-When: Fri Aug 14 18:30:04 PDT 1998
State-Changed-Why:
No, the web server can't do the authorization because the
path info doesn't necessarily have anything to do with a
filesystem path; it _can_ be used that way, but it is very
often used in other ways.

Any CGI can do the same thing; if the files are readable,
the CGI would read them.  Would you blame Apache for a CGI
that just printed out the contents of every file on the
filesystem that were readable to the user.

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