Why double requests?

[Bill Moseley]

mod_perl 1.24/1.3.12 perl 5.6

Here's my httpd.conf:
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Listen 9000
<VirtualHost *:9000>
    <perl>
        package My::DirectoryIndex;
        use Apache::Constants qw( DECLINED );

        sub handler {
            my $r = shift;
        
            $r->log_error(
                ( $r->is_initial_req ? 'initial:' : 'not initial:' )
                . $r->uri );
        

            return DECLINED;
        }

        package My::Hello;
        use strict;
        use Apache::Constants qw( OK );
        sub handler {
            my $r = shift;
            $r->send_http_header('text/plain');
            $r->print('hello');
            return OK;
        }
    </perl>

    PerlTransHandler My::DirectoryIndex

    <Location /test>
        Allow from all
        SetHandler perl-script
        PerlHandler My::Hello
        PerlSendHeader on
    </Location>
</VirtualHost>    

Here's the request:
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GET /test/abc/123 http/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:17:16 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_perl/1.24
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain

hello

Here's the error_log
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[Wed Oct 11 10:17:16 2000] [error] initial:/test/abc/123
[Wed Oct 11 10:17:16 2000] [error] not initial:/abc/123
[Wed Oct 11 10:17:16 2000] [error] [client 192.168.0.98] client denied by
server configuration: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/abc

Why the second request with the extra path?

This doesn't generate a second request:
GET /hello/abc/123 http/1.0

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden

[Wed Oct 11 10:25:22 2000] [error] initial:/hello/abc/123
[Wed Oct 11 10:25:22 2000] [error] [client 192.168.0.98] client denied by
server configuration: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/hello


Bill Moseley
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