Handle trailing / in routes

[asymmetric]

Currently, one has to separately handle the presence/absence of trailing slashes, by having a route for "", and one for "/".

I think it would be more intuitive if a trailing slash were automatically added, or removed, via redirects.

For the record, Go's serveMux does the former.

[aantron]

IIRC Dream sticks to the RFCs in treating these differently, as, IIRC, "" refers to a file-like resource and "/" to a directory. It may be a little old-fashioned. This could be a good use case for a middleware.

[yawaramin]

Maybe we could introduce a small new addition to the Dream path syntax to handle an optional trailing slash, eg /foo:/ could match against both /foo and /foo/?

[briangwaltney]

I was working on middleware for a project and noticed "Router path access is being removed from the API."

Dream.path and Dream.with_path both are showing this error.

Is there a way to handle this with the functions still available?

[yawaramin]

I guess with Dream.target