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The configuration that finally worked was:

  Alias /foo /home/httpd/foo
    <Location /foo>
      SetHandler "perl-script"
      Options +ExecCGI
      PerlHandler Apache::OutputChain Apache::SSIChain Apache::Registr
+y
    </Location>
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This looks like exactly what i need, but I can't find it doc'd anywhere...I've been pouring through apache.org and apache journal with no luck. does anyone have a url on this?

-- I'm a solipsist, and so is everyone else. (think about it)