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Hmmm... two comments.  First off, I still think these should get bounced
with a 400, instead of a 404.  Second, it seems to me that this could be
handled fairly simply by just sticking something like

   if (url[0] != '/') die (BAD_REQUEST, ...)

in process_request, before it dispatches to the request-specific code;
that might be a little less error-prone than hacking every call to
translate_name.

rst