<much snippage and a frivolous/facetious reply ahead>
 > then execute a mod_proxy handled subrequest. This works in 1.3.X, I mean,
 > I've never tried it, well, maybe once, but I didn't like it.
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The man has a career as a President or member of Congress. :)

 > the fact that it forwards all of the requesting client's headers.  It might
 > be better just to have some functionality like that in libghttpd that could
 > be used when you wanted to use http requests to get data for your handler.

Exactly what I would recommend. 

 > If I'm totally off and what you are really thinking of is a way for a
 > handler to decide that it cannot satisfy the request and conditionally hand
 > the request over to mod_proxy, this is possible but tricky.  mod_rewrite
 > does this, and it involves something like tacking "proxy:" onto the request
 > uri and setting the content handler to mod_proxy's handler.  You might need
 > an internal redirect somewhere in there if you tried to do this after fixup
 > though.

Mrph. Expect the "proxy:" hack to disappear before too long.

Victor 
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