Adding a mod_perl / handler gives odd SCRIPT_NAME and PATH_INFO...

[Jacqui Caren]

We are working on a dynapage engine that can be operated under mod perl.

The system works well when ran under configuration such as


<Location /pgc >
  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlHandler PGC:;Handler
</Location>


however when we try to use 

<Location / >
  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlHandler PGC:;Handler
</Location>

we hit a problem.

See the following URls and CGI envs...

Url             SCRIPT_NAME     PATH_INFO
--------------- --------------- ----------------
/               
/aaaa           /aaaa
/aaaa/          /aaaa           /
/aaaa/bbb       /aaaa           /bbb

for the folowing config

<Location /aaaa >
  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlHandler PGC:;Handler
</Location>

we get pretty similar CGI envs

The problem is that we expect everything after / to be
part of PATH_INFO - from the CGI env it is not possible 
to tell if we are trying to exclude /aaaa from the dynamic part of
the URL or whether Apache/mod_perl has decided to moe this part
of the URl into the script name.

Any suggestions are welcome.

FYI: we have currently modified the sstem to include our own TransHandler
however for various reasons this is not an ideal solution...

Jacqui