[ python-Bugs-1314572 ] Trailing slash redirection for SimpleHTTPServer

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Bugs item #1314572, was opened at 2005-10-05 23:49
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Category: Python Library
Group: Feature Request
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Josiah Carlson (josiahcarlson)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Trailing slash redirection for SimpleHTTPServer

Initial Comment:
As known by every serious web server developer, the
lack of a trailing slash on direcories can cause some
serious web page loading issues.  Take the following
examples...

Let us imagine that: 'http://www.foo.com/foo' points to
a directory containing 'index.html'.  A web server
could return the contents of 'index.html', but then any
relative urls would be relative to the / path of the
web server.

A better web server would instead redirect the user to
'http://www.foo.com/foo/'.  SimpleHTTPServer does not
do any such redirection, and the documentation for
forcing a client to redirect is difficult to find on
the internet.  In the comments I will post a
replacement
SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.send_head
method which does automatic trailing slash redirection.

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