In the message I just sent out I complained about SCRIPT_NAME being /. Well, it turns out I was starting ZopeHTTPServer with SCRIPT_NAME=/. In reality, if I run ZopeHTTPServer with no SCRIPT_NAME argument I get PATH_INFO: '/check_request' PATH_TRANSLATED: '/home/dolphin/skip/src/Zope-1.9.0b3-src/check_request' SCRIPT_NAME: '' which is still arguably wrong in my opinion, just different than I originally reported. Skip