On 05 October 2001, Andrew Kuchling said:
> A simpler fix might be:
>
> if ( and path.startswith(script)):
>      path = path[len(script)+1:]

That sounds reasonable.

> Whose responsibility should it be to fix this?
> publish.parse_request() or HTTPRequest's constructor?  (My vote is for
> the latter.)

I agree.  HTTPRequest is closer to HTTP and the server, so should
workaround server bugs like this.

        Greg