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PODynamic URLs - with or without a trailing slash?
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copied!<p>The short question is - what is the best practice - to use or not to use a trailing slash in URLs.</p> <p>There are many articles: <a href="http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/thou-must-not-steal-the-trailing-slash-from-my-urls/#why-stealing-slashes-is-plain-robbery" rel="noreferrer">this</a>, <a href="http://www.standardzilla.com/2007/07/09/dont-forget-your-trailing-slash/" rel="noreferrer">this</a>, <a href="http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/weblog/search-engines/trailing-slashes-best-practice" rel="noreferrer">this</a>.</p> <p>However, they all seem to deal with static directory structure. What about dynamic urls, like those rewritten, or those handled by a central facility (like a web framework, for example), that forward to internal resources depending on convention/configuration. For them it is no longer the case that the web server actually searches and figures out exact locations - it is just a matter of parsing.</p> <p>So, for example with spring mvc you declare that a given class method is invoked when the URI matches <code>/service/action/{pathParam}</code> - for this URL, imo, it does not make sense to have a trailing slash - the request is handled by one and the same servlet each time, which does the parsing.</p> <p>What I think is that one should just be consistent - either use trailing slashes everywhere, or don't use them at all.</p> <p>So:</p> <ul> <li>what's the best practice - with, without, or whatever-just be consistent</li> <li>what's the reason to choose one over the other</li> </ul>

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