i have never used squid, but it might be worth a try.

I get the feeling that would be like swatting flies with a sledgehammer in this case. There's a very nice trick you can do with mod_rewrite which would probably be all the OP needs. It goes something like this (untested):

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule /?(.*)$ /cgi-bin/generate.pl/$1
[download]

Of course, this assumes Apache... but everybody runs Apache, right? :-)

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

Even without the mod_rewrite logic, you can do this with a simple 404 handler using a technique I demonstrated five years ago.

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