Should I just have leveraged Apache?

yes.

On a final note, the latest IE6 on WinXP seems to have a bug in which a redirect causes the browser to generate a subsequent request in which the "Host:" header reflects the original, rather than new, hostname/port. This leads to incorrect operation of the absolute_url() method ... and all kinds of nastiness. Anyone also see this?

This is a perfect example of why ZServer should never be used by itself. As recently discussed on the -dev list, the Host header is tained information, any code which treats it as authoritative without untainting is broken. ZServer blindly accepts anything you feed it. Nor does it contextually escape it when reusing the host data in the base href either. Fun. -- Jamie Heilman http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/ "We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the words for it, before we know there are words, out we come bloodied and squalling with the knowledge that for all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure." -Rosencrantz