Glenn Linderman added the comment:

Martin, thanks for the recent activity in this area. Sorry I've not yet learned 
how to submit patches. python_dev keeps busy changing the process and tools, 
and I keep busy with other projects, having patched a version of http-server 
well enough for my personal needs.

Your analysis that this is a new feature because the code doesn't support it, 
and the documentation is vague has some merit. 

On the other hand, the reason I called it a behavior bug in the first place is 
comparison to other web servers that support multi-part paths to cgi scripts 
indicates it is clearly deficient by comparison... and the documentation isn't 
explicit enough to say so, so it can be considered a "deficient" if not "buggy" 
implementation. Certainly, any attempt to port a real web site that depends 
heavily on cgi scripts to http-server would be extremely likely to fail due to 
this deficiency, that is not documented as a limitation of the "generally 
expected" abilities of a web server.

It'd sure be nice to fix it, whether it is called a bug or an enhancement, and 
the fix is in the comments above.

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