igs added the comment:
As mentioned above standard Apache does not accept the extra characters anymore
and produces '500 internal error'. So the normal behaviour of this module makes
things worse in most cases instead of being helpful.
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New submission from igs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
At least in Python 2.4 shutil.copy2() not only copies content and
access times of a files like stated in the documentation but also the
access bits.
That behaviour I would not expect because in other functions from
shutil it is explicitly