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Golang Gorilla Sends 301 For "//" URLs

I have two route configured as following

  • GET /api/store/{store_id}/books
  • GET /api/store/{store_id}

When an API call comes for the first URL without {store_id} parameter, like /api/store//books, Gorilla would somehow send a 301 /api/store/books to client. This is causing me problem because it acutally matched the second route. Gorilla would treat books as the {store_id} parameter.

How do I configure Gorilla to return 404 or other error code when receiving // in URLs?

I am using Gorilla v1.7.0.

Solution

  • By default mux will clean the URL. You can set the router.SkipClean(true) parameter to avoid that.

    When true, if the route path is "/path//to", it will remain with the double slash. This is helpful if you have a route like: /fetch/http://xkcd.com/534/