If not, you didn't spell things out very carefully. Do you have a handler that should apply only to directories? If so, it needs to simply decline anything it doesn't want to handle.

I have an example of that at my mod_perl-enabled Picture handler, In particular, simply return DECLINED if content-type is not DIR_MAGIC_TYPE.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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yes, the code is there to handle the directory ... more specifically, the whole site is handled by my handler.

if i don't have some kind of index file in there, i get 403 Forbidden errors. if i put it in there, it works.