catalyst consistent url format with trailing slash

I'm developing a Catalyst application and having trouble with the way Catalyst interprets urls.

Let's say that in our Catalyst application we have a controller Account. If this is the case, Catalyst will interpret

http://mydomain.com/account and http://mydomain.com/account/

as the same url for the index action.

However, for SEO and linking purposes (and just to be consistent overall) I would like to force Catalyst to only recognize one format and stick to it.

I've found one module that seems to be built for this: Catalyst::Plugin::SanitizeUrl, it's documentation says you should just put

use Catalyst 'SanitizeUrl';

in myapp.pm and this will handle everything for you.

However, whenever I use it I just get this error:

Bad request

On every page load. Does anyone know of a simple way to have Catalyst only use one format?

Solution

I ended up combining what edem said with some stuff that I did and this is my end result:

sub begin :Private {
    my ($self, $c) = @_;

    #don't allow trailing slashes!
    my @path = split "/", $c->req->path, -1;
    if(@path and (pop @path eq '')) {
        my $p = join '/', @path;
        #set as moved permanently
        $c->res->redirect("/$p", 301);
        return;
    }
}

If there is a trailing slash at the end of the request, it will always redirect to the same url but without the slash.