in my case an .htaccess file gives redirects all html requests to /cgi-bin/counter.py by also provide as an argument to the counter.py script the initical html file request
RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f RewriteRule ^/?(.+\.html) /cgi-bin/counter.py?page=$1 [L,PT,QSA] so the latter you mentioned its not the case for me. But iam wondering why this doesnt work on this server while on my previous host did..... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list