Overriding PerlAuthenHandler in sub-directories

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Hi,

If I have activated a PerlAuthenHandler for a directory in httpd.conf 
with

<Location /foo>
...
PerlAuthenHandler My::Handler
</Location>

How can I deactivate this PerlAuthenHandler for a subdirectory, such as 
/foo/bar ?

The online mod_perl docs explain that PerlHandlers can be deactivated 
for subdirectories by setting PerlHandler default-handler (when 
SetHandler has been set to perl-script), but either my problem lies 
elsewhere, or it is not possible to have:

<Location /foo/bar>
....
PerlAuthenHandler default-handler         # nor indeed 
'PerlAuthenHandler none'
</Location>.

All advice gratefully received. (I'm trying to set up authentication 
using Apache::AuthCookie. Since I want to avoid clunky URLs like 
www.example.com/protected/... I want to activate authentication for the 
root directory. The only problem is that the login form where the user 
types in his username and password has to be submitted to a location 
below root (e.g. /LOGIN), which of course, can't be done until the user 
has logged in...)

Regards,

Geoffrey Ferrari