Bug#391290: marked as done (apache should automatically detect extra periods/commas at the end of URLs and fix)
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Package: apache2
Version: 2.0.55-4.1
Severity: wishlist
Many people type in URLs with extra periods or commas. For example, a
user may type:
http://www.jspiro.com/wiki.
when they actually meant to type:
http://www.jspiro.com/wiki
This causes a lot of 404 errors on web servers everywhere. Would it be
possible for apache to automatically detect extra periods/commas at
the end of URLs and redirect clients to the correct place?
Regards,
Jason
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On Thursday 05 October 2006 22:15, Jason Spiro wrote:
> Many people type in URLs with extra periods or commas. For example,
> a user may type:
> http://www.jspiro.com/wiki.
> when they actually meant to type:
> http://www.jspiro.com/wiki
>
> This causes a lot of 404 errors on web servers everywhere. Would it
> be possible for apache to automatically detect extra periods/commas
> at the end of URLs and redirect clients to the correct place?
This can be done with mod_speling or with something like
RewriteRule ^(.*)[,.]$ $1 [R]
though the latter will prevent you from requesting any file ending
with period or comma. With some more refined rewrite magic using
subrequests, you can probably avoid that.
However, by default Apache should return exactly what was requested.
Therefore I close this bug.
Cheers,
Stefan
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