[mod_python] Apache + mod_python + SSLVerifyClient == broken url parsing?

ben wrote:

> At a deeper level, it's surprising to me that this code even reaches 
> mod_python -- it seems intuitively that the SSLVerifyClient directive 
> should be part of authentication, and ought to fail during connection 
> negotiation, before control is handed over to the python interpreter.

Have you tried using Directory instead of Location?