Automatic Redirects: Trailing slash added to Old/New URLs

[stkitzrow]

We are using the automatic redirects feature for a site, and it seems that a trailing slash is added to all the redirects, like so:

It works great when the slash is present in the old url, but when using the old url without the trailing slash, we get a 404. Most users are accessing these URLs without a trailing slash, unless they're part of a path. Is there a way to tweak the behavior so that the old/new URLs can be added without this trailing slash? Even better, add two entries to account for both trailling slash & without?

[marisks]

Fixing trailing slashes is not really this library's purpose. You should be able to do it by implementing rewrite rules in ASP.NET Core: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/url-rewriting?view=aspnetcore-6.0&tabs=aspnetcore2x#regex-examples

[stkitzrow]

Thank you for your response @marisks,

I may be misunderstanding. I've already tried applying the "skip" trailing slash rule from that article. When I move a piece of content from within Optimizely, the automatic redirect still applies the '/' to the end of the new/old urls. I do not think I have any control over this?

I tried forcing our Opti .Net Core site to apply the trailing slash (to match the nuget package behavior), but that broke functionality on our site.

[marisks]

Those trailing slashes are not added by NotFoundHandler. Those URLs are what Optimizely resolves. Not sure how I can help.

[GeekInTheNorth]

The default routing options for URL generation in Optimizely CMS is to always add a trailing slash: https://docs.developers.optimizely.com/content-cloud/v12.0.0-content-cloud/docs/configuring-cms

I would suggest using a redirect rule to force the trailing slash on old URLs as this also aligns with SEO best practice. But do be careful, I got stung with special character encoding and a lowercase URL redirect ending up in an infinite loop. PathValue.Value is the original value, but PathValue.ToString() results in a re-encoding of special characters into upper case characters.