Path Normalization

[thheller]

Why are paths normalized? I work with quite a few urls that require a trailing /, every time I try to rewrite an url the trailing slash is removed.

(let [test "http://some.domain.com/some/path/"
      test' (cemerick.url/url test)]
  (prn [:test test])
  (prn [:test' (str test')])
  (= test (str test')))

I don't think anything parts of the url should be touched by default, since it my case all resulting URLs are invalid. :(

Any thoughts?

[zsau]

The removal of trailing slashes is definitely a bug, IMO. /foo is a completely different path from /foo/. Often they will point to the same resource, but not always. It also breaks relative paths (given base URIs with paths /foo/ and /foo, the relative URI doc.html points to /foo/doc.html and /doc.html, respectively).

Normalization (removing unnecessary /./ and /../ segments) is more debatable.

[deg]

+1. I just hit the same problem.

[cemerick]

Yup, it's a bug. Fix welcome.