(I didn't reply to my original message because the mailing list never sent it to me. Yet, I can see it at the archives here http://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-web/2009-October/004334.html - is anyone getting these messages?) A bit of metaprogramming to the rescue. For those Resource classes that you want to append slashes automatically, this seems to work. Can anyone see any problems with this? def append_slashes(rsc_class): original_getChild = rsc_class.getChild original_render = rsc_class.render def slash_appending_getChild(self, path, request): if path == '': return self else: return original_getChild(self, path, request) def slash_appending_render(self, request): if request.prepath[-1] != '': request.redirect(request.childLink("")) return "" else: return original_render(self, request) rsc_class.getChild = slash_appending_getChild rsc_class.render = slash_appending_render rsc_class.isLeaf = False return rsc_class # test code # entering http://localhost:8080/hello should redirect to http://localhost:8080/hello/ from twisted.internet import reactor from twisted.python import log from twisted.web import server, resource, static import sys class MyPage(resource.Resource): def render_GET(self, request): return "<html><body><p>Hello World</p></body></html>" append_slashes(MyPage) log.startLogging(sys.stdout) root = resource.Resource() root.putChild("hello", MyPage()) site = server.Site(root) reactor.listenTCP(8080, site) reactor.run() -- Mark Wright markscottwright@gmail.com