I understand all that.

I have just been led to believe from mod_perl documentation that GATEWAY_INTERFACE
reflects the handler of the request. Of course, there are other environment variables that are relative
to the request/session ie; REMOTE_ADDR etc. But im not going to worry about it too much :)

Seeing as I have loaded the dynamic shared object,
and am able to load perl modules from httpd.conf, I figure mod_perl is rolling anyhow.

Thanks for the replies guys :)