Please excuse the slightly off-topic post...

How do i set up a unix webserver so all accesses to a particular directory (and below) get *handled* by a perl script? (ie, similar to the way java servlet's can act)

For example: 

http://www.domain.com/thedirectory/
=>  /cgi-bin/path/myscript.pl ('/')

http://www.domain.com/thedirectory/foo
=>  /cgi-bin/path/myscript.pl ('/foo')

http://www.domain.com/thedirectory/foo/bar
=>  /cgi-bin/path/myscript.pl ('/foo/bar')

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or something to that effect.

Note that i dont want a simple redirection because that changes the url in the address bar, and doesn't give me access to the original path requested. Also, i need to do things like return images and http redirects so just inserting text into a shtml doc isn't likely to work. And, just to make things tricky, i don't have root access to this particular server...

Any comments appreciated!

- ><iper 

my JAPH:
  print"Just another Perl hacker\n";
  #    ^ look, no space! pretty tricky huh?

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In reply to Perl script to handle requests to a http://.../path/* by xiper

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