[Web-SIG] handling URLs with ending slash

Randy Syring randy at rcs-comp.com
Sun Dec 14 19:54:03 CET 2008


Manilo,

Here is a thread on this topic, well a partial thread, start reading 
about half way down:

http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/browse_thread/thread/6888b790239b488b

I found it informative.

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Manlio Perillo wrote:
> Hi.
>
> In my WSGI applications I always have an ending slash to the URLs.
> This means that an URL without the ending slash will cause the 
> underlying resource to return 404 Not Found HTTP response.
>
> What is the best method to handle this, using a regex based URL 
> dispatcher?
>
> I'm planning to add an option to my URL dispatcher to force any URL to 
> have an ending slash (as an example requesting an HTTP redirect - 
> either 302 or 301, or by just internally modifying the URL), but I'm 
> not sure this is the best solution.
>
>
> Thanks   Manlio Perillo
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