If you are using Apache, you can also use the cgi-script handler instead of ScriptAlias. So, in general, if your server.pl script is already running on the webserver, you can use the PATH_INFO trick to pass the URIs to the script.

You do need to watch out for root-relative URIs though; say you've got an html page with the following code:

<img src="/pix/image.gif">
<img src="pix/image.gif">
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When the HTML page is called as /index.html the URIs for the images will be:

/pix/image.gif
/pix/image.gif
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When you call the page as server.pl/index.html the URIs will be:

/pix/image.gif
/server.pl/pix/image.gif
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By the way, using the BASE tag might also help.

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