All routes/urls should have a trailing slash. Missing trailing slashes should be added

[ErisDS]

Every route in Ghost should expect a trailing slash.

• If a request is made to Ghost which does not have a trailing slash, assume it is incorrect, and add the trailing slash before attempting to match the route (middleware?)
• Add trailing slash to permalinks
• Ensure settings subpages have a trailing slash
• All other routes which don't have a trailing slash should have one added, including the API

[ErisDS]

Was lookng for the best way to do this. Middleware, regex, something else?

Found this interesting read: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/express-js/-irYaQqRZ3M

A summary of the interesting points:

A URL ending in a slash is a directory, and a URL without a slash is a
resource. So /users/ would be a list of users, and /users/bob would be
a single user.

Therefore the suggested solution is to do this:

/users -> 301 redirect to /users/
/users/ -> 200
/users/bob -> 200
/users/bob/ -> 301 redirect to /users/bob

And there is middleware available to do it: https://github.com/avinoamr/connect-slashes

[JohnONolan]

I would prefer to have a trailing slash on everything and just keep it consistent - what the trailing slash actually means is largely conjecture/speculation. Feels like the old days of arguing .php/.asp vs .htm