My first reaction was to be pissed...

... Fortunately, I have learned not to respond to my first reaction. I have quite-cheerfully tossed that reaction aside and will say nothing more of it. Rather:   “Short and sweet! Thank you!”

Clearly, I am dealing with what is probably also a very-familiar scenario:   my local server is running Apache 2-point-latest, but my dark-ages (but che-e-e-e-ep) web-host is running 1-point-who_knows_what. So I have to make sure that the code that I am writing (or... shamelessly importing from CPAN...) will work everywhere. I don't want to do rsync and find myself “madly scrambling” (again...).

It seems to me that several of these venerable CPAN modules have not caught-up with the times. Things like the Apache 2.0 AcceptPathInfo directive, which I am now studying closely based on this post, are not mentioned at all. But they are, obviously, extremely important to me in a situation like this one. I would love to read more in-depth follow-ups to this topic, and I daresay that I cannot be alone in this. We developers (naturally) go for “the latest,” while the web-hosts that run our stuff go for “old.” So, this is great, and I still want to find|know more.