Trac doesn't alow the addition of trailing slashes.

[nslater@…]

I wish to append a trailing slash to all request on my Trac installation but this causes Trac to baulk.

I have tried to change things with mod_rewrite but have failed.

After digging around in the code I found that the WSGIRequestHandler is reading the raw request line and hence I cannot fool Trac with environment variables or local URI rewriting.

The only solution to this that I can see is to add a configuration option to Trac much like Djangos APPEND_SLASH that lets you control if the request line is to ignore (strip) trailing slashes.

[Matthew Good]

Can you explain why you want/need to do this? Trac allows for URLs with trailing slashes when appropriate, but I don't see a reason to have them appended to every request. Also, I'm pretty sure WSGIRequestHandler is not actually involved in the processing of mod_python requests. It's used as part of tracd for parsing the HTTP request.

[anonymous]

The rest of my domain uses trailing "/" characters at the end of URLs. I would like to keep with this president for consistency and aesthetics.

You are correct about WSGIRequestHandler, I was looking in the wrong place. I believe there is a function called dispatch_foo or something which handles all the requests. All it would take to implement a fix for this would be to honour the REQUEST_PATH environment variable.

You can set this variable with mod_rewrite and would allow Apache to rewrite Tracs URI namespace.

[Matthew Good]

Replying to anonymous:

All it would take to implement a fix for this would be to honour the REQUEST_PATH environment variable.

Care to provide a patch? I don't see any reference to REQUEST_PATH in the Apache documentation. Be aware that for #2299 the SCRIPT_URL variable is now read to determine the URL path before rewriting.

[nslater@…]

I have changed my mind on this now. Unless there was a way to configure Trac to actually link to URIs with a trailing slash there would be a permanent redirect issued and two requests generated for every single resource request. I am closing as wontfix, if you don't mind.