Hello Dancers, I recently asked a question on #dancer regarding how to deal with trailing slashes on routes. There was a brief discussion which resulted, and I've copied the the discussion below in order to get some more input on the matter. (with permission from gnusosa) please see the discussion below: ----------irc.perl.org------#dancer------------------------ 14:54 < jbl> curious how others treat the difference between 'route' and 'route/' in dancer. I'm often using '/some/route', but then if a user tries to access the app with http://site.com/some/route/' (with the trailing slash) it gives a 404 by default. What's the usual cure for this problem? 14:55 < gnusosa> jbl: Good Question. 14:59 < gnusosa> jbl: This is going to happen since the slash "/" is the one that difference the route from the route/ 15:02 < jbl> right 15:03 < jbl> I'm just wondering if I should add a wildcard or redirect to catch trailing slashes, or if there is a setting somewhere that checks if there are no other characters after the slash, to just treat it as base route 15:03 < jbl> not sure I'm being clear on that :\ 15:04 < jbl> I think I saw the use of regexs for routes somewhere, that might be a good option 15:06 < jbl> to do something like: get '/myroute[/]*$' 15:07 < jbl> or maybe even just strip the trailing slashes using a 'before' statement 15:07 < gnusosa> jbl: Probably. 15:07 < jbl> curse of tmtowtdi 15:08 < gnusosa> jbl: But all of these seems like too much hassle. 15:08 < gnusosa> jbl: What is the problem with sending some people to 404 :P 15:10 < jbl> I guess that if the URL doesn't have an extension "/route.cgi" then some people (maybe just me) may feel that URL is incomplete/incorrect/odd somehow. I guess they could go to a 404 if they type in the URL manually 15:11 < jbl> no real harm in that as long as the real URL works 15:11 < jbl> just feels off 15:11 < gnusosa> jbl: umm I understand now. 15:12 < jbl> and I remember at some point (back in the day) it was good practice to end URLs with a slash, if it wasn't going to a 'file' 15:16 < gnusosa> jbl: You should email the mailing list dancer-users@perldancer.org with this issue. Best practices in the routes are a big deal. ------------------------------------